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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 812b00788db12acfe822225a0daf74987da988e76d49aeacf45e818f88632a75
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