“Fear and courage, they can live together in a man." "Indeed," said Flip, recovering from the specter of slave-catchers, "you could say that one is necessary for the other." "Oh, sure," I said, "you boys have plenty of courage. But I'd say it ain't courage that grows alongside fear, that nurses from the same teat. It's fury.”
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