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title: "3 Age Coward Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-was-a-coward-and-a-slave-i-say-this-without-the-slightest/)

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/)

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> [Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/every-decent-man-of-our-age-must-be-a-coward-and-a-slave-that-is-his/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-portis/people-do-not-give-it-credence-that-a-fourteen-year-old-girl-could/)

[Charles Portis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-portis/)

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