“If I fail, my death will be a glorious one, and if I succ…” Andrew Lang (ed.)

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Portrait of Andrew Lang (ed.) — Andrew Lang (ed.) (spoken by Scheherazade)
*The Arabian Nights Entertainments*, The Arabian Nights (frame story), trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)

Scheherazade answers her horrified father when he asks whether she knows what it means to be the Sultan's bride.

Citation: "If I fail, my death will be a glorious one, and if I succeed I shall have done a great service to my country." — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Arabian Nights (frame story), trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q1)

Virtues: Fortitude

Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.

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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)