How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger death how abject in the presence of any all forms of hereditary rank. (Mark Twain)

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger death how abject in the presence of any all forms of hereditary rank.

Mark Twain

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