IF YOU ONLY KNEW
Napoleon often referred to Marshal Ney as the bravest man he had ever known. Yet Ney’s knees trembled so badly one morning before battle that he had trouble mounting his horse. Looking down at them when he finally was in the saddle, he shouted contemptuously, “Shake away, knees! You would shake worse than that if you knew where I am going to take you.” John O’Brien, Art of Courageous Living (McMullen Co.) as quoted by Droke in Speaker’s Book of Illutrative Stories (see above).
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