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Mark Twain1835–1910

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is⁠—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.

Mark Twain on courage

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXII

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