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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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COURAGE

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

It is curious--curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

There are not enough morally brave men in stock. We are out of moral-courage material.
- "United States of Lyncherdom"

Also see: Moral Courage

Portrait by Beckwith
Portrait of Twain by
James Carroll Beckwith, 1890.
Photo courtesy of Dave Thomson

"I consider that head of Clemens is one of my best bits of work, and I hope it may some day go to a place where it maybe useful as an example of my painting."
- From Beckwith's unpublished autobiography titled SOUVENIRS AND REMINISCENCES.
Transcription courtesy of
Robert Snow author of
LOOKING FOR CARROLL BECKWITH

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