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O the paralyzing effect of fear of evil! It surely doth make “cowards of us all.” It makes us pygmies where we might be giants, were we only free from it.

O the paralyzing effect of fear of evil! It surely doth make “cowards of us all.” It makes us pygmies where we might be giants, were we only free from it.

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H. Emilie Cady
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 273; printed byline: H. Emilie Cady; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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