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Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
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A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
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