A word from Cervantes

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

— Miguel de Cervantes

This saying was recast on the lips of E.W. Hornung’s fictional English jewel thief, Raffles, who said: “Money lost, little lost; honour lost, much lost; pluck lost, all lost.”

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