“All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardi…”

“All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Title: Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Variant translation: "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky

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