The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.
 George MacDonald, Lilith (1895). copy citation

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Author George MacDonald
Source Lilith
Topic cowardice action
Date 1895
Language English
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“To them a few such lessons as you could have given them with a stick from one of their own trees, would have been invaluable.»
«I did not know they were cowards!»
«What difference does that make? The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.—I fear worse will come of it! By this time the Little Ones might have been able to protect themselves from the princess, not to say the giants—they were always fit enough for that; as it was they laughed at them! but now, through your relations with her,——»” source

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