“Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?”

— Alphonse Daudet, book Tartarin of Tarascon

Où serait le mérite, si les héros n’avaient jamais peur?
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 204; translation p. 80.

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