Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
“I preferred a safe horse to a fast one - I would like to have an excessively gentle horse - a horse with no spirit whatever- a lame one, if he had such a thing. Inside of five minutes I was mounted, and perfectly satisfied with my outfit. I had no time to label him 'This is a horse,' and so if the public took him for a sheep I cannot help it.”
― Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
― Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
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