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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Source:
Marginalia (Graham's Magazine, December 1846), Number 186
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Born:
January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849
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