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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:236
AUTHOR:Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618)
QUOTATION:Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
ATTRIBUTION:On the snuff of a candle the night before he died.—Raleigh’s Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661.
 

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