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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain knew something about fear and failure in his lifetime – he experienced financial troubles and lost a great deal of money through different investments, even filing for bankruptcy at one time. And he is often criticised for the ending
of one of his most famous books, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with many saying that he experienced a “failure of nerve” – but the book is still widely-loved and thought of as a classic, and the writer Ernest Hemingway once wrote that, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
You can find more from Twain on page 29.
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