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)

“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
—18th-century English proverb.

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

“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.