“We are not afraid of the owl, we are the hawks.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
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“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
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“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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“I was afraid you would think I was bragging.”
Ben Hecht (1894–1964) American screenwriter
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Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
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