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O Guarani 20.64 · 20.64

Cowardice and baseness

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Mas não ouviu os passos do aventureiro; a primeira idéia que lhe veio foi que ele tinha fugido; e como a cobardia para as almas grandes se associa à baixeza, lembrou-se de uma traição.

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But he did not hear the adventurer's steps; the first idea that came to him was that he had fled; and since cowardice, for great souls, is bound up with baseness, he thought of a treachery.

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