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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. "

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" It requires more courage to suffer than to die. "

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" Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' "

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