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QUOTATION:As to moral courage, I have rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage; I mean instantaneous courage.
ATTRIBUTION:Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), 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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