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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.

Nasake wa hito no tame narazu.

This is a fitting end for a criminal like me.

"Every time he said something he would turn and look at Japhy and deliver these rather brilliant inanities with a complete deadpan; I couldn't understand what kind of strange secret scholarly linguistic clown he really was under these California skies."