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    The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw

    Feb 01, 2019 3 minutes
    By Ronald I. Cohen

    Courage meant a great deal to Winston Churchill. In his 1931 profile of Spain’s King Alfonso XIII titled “Alfonso the Unlucky,” subsequently published as a chapter in Great Contemporaries, Churchill wrote,

    Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

    Indeed, courage was a personal quality

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