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Comment author: Salivanth 02 October 2014 11:49:31PM 25 points [-]

The Courage Wolf looked long and slow at the Weasley twins. At length he spoke, "I see that you possess half of courage. That is good. Few achieve that."

"Half?" Fred asked, too awed to be truly offended.

"Yes," said the Wolf, "You know how to heroically defy, but you do not know how to heroically submit. How to say to another, 'You are wiser than I; tell me what to do and I will do it. I do not need to understand; I will not cost you the time to explain.' And there are those in your lives wiser than you, to whom you could say that."

"But what if they're wrong?" George said.

"If they are wrong, you die," the Wolf said plainly, "Horribly. And for nothing. That is why it is an act of courage."

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 03 October 2014 04:58:16PM 3 points [-]

Nice. Where did you find that? Either Uncle Google is failing me, or I am failing Uncle Google.

Comment author: Salivanth 04 October 2014 05:50:07AM 3 points [-]

It's a comment on one of Eliezer Yudkowsky's Facebook posts. I got permission to post it here, as I thought it was worth posting.

Comment author: Flipnash 03 October 2014 07:14:15PM *  2 points [-]

It was a reply to a post on Eliezer Yudkowsky's facebook.