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Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round cape horn goes the most circumspectly.
-Herman Melville
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Familiarity With Danger Makes A Brave Man

Herman Melville
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round cape horn goes the most circumspectly.
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