“1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
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