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There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

William Barclay

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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
Author
Classical Scholar
Theologian
University Teacher
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Highland
Time
Seek
Court
Danger
Trouble
Cowardly
Greater
Store
Peace
Lazy
Stills
Stores
Still
Avoid

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