"The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice."
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"Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God."
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"It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice."
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"With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries."
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"Cowardice is the greatest sin."
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"This world is not for cowards."
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"My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death."
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"Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet."
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"Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own."
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"Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life"
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"They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener."
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"To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say."
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"The coward is an object to be pitied."
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"Cowardice is no virtue."
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"Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go."
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"It is cowardice to commit suicide."
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"For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion."
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"Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God."
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"To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice."
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"Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom."
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