Cowards [may] Fear To Die; But Courage Stout, Rather Than Live In Snuff, Will Be Put Out.

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Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
-- On the snuff of a candle the night before he died,
-- Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed, 1661

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