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Courage of One’s Opinion

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To have the courage of one’s opinion means to utter, maintain, and act according to one’s opinion, be the consequences what they may. The French use the same locution. Martyrs may be said to have had the courage of their opinions.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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