Quote#Courage
What a bore it is […] that the dull and uneducated and unimaginative…
Quote byJean Ingelow · 1820–1897
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 13, pp. 202–203.
English (original)
What a bore it is […] that the dull and uneducated and unimaginative should possess a dogged contempt for danger, and a kind of stupid fearlessness that we are never to have. I do not see how a highly imaginative man can have much animal courage.
— Jean Ingelow
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