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/ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.  Except a  \
| creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely |
| a loose misapplication of the word.  Consider the flea!--incomparably the       |
| bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.         |
| Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact |
| that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth  |
| to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the  |
| very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more       |
| afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by   |
| an earthquake ten centuries before.  When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam |
| as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and    |
| put him at the head of the procession.                                          |
\                 -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"                   /
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