Courage Is Resistance To Fear Mastery

This is a verified Twain quote, appearing as the epigraph to Chapter 12 of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), attributed to the fictional "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar." The novel was first serialized in The Century Magazine beginning in December 1893, and the line was noted by a Century critic as early as July 1894. Set in antebellum Missouri, the book uses Wilson's sardonic calendar entries to frame its dark story of racial identity and switched identities.