| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 7744 |
| QUOTATION: | As to moral courage, I have rarely met with two oclock in the morning courage; I mean instantaneous courage. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821), French general, emperor. quoted in Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, vol. 1, pt. 2, E.A. de Las Casas (1823).
Said by Napoleon at the end of December 1815. |
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