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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
Danger
Courage
Seeing
Overlooking
Conquering
Blindly
Consists
Conquer

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