In the military great courage is often referred to as heroism, while a lack of courage will brand you a coward.

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As recently as the late eighties, you could still find bookish young people coming to terms with their sexuality by way of reading Wilde. (You could at least find me.) Whether or not Wilde saw himself as part of a cause, he did not lack courage.

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