Eighteenth-century English Proverb

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    Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
    Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
    Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
    —18th-century English proverb.