“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“How comes it to pass then, that we appear such Cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the Test of Ridicule?”
Vol. 1, p. 11; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
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