“The burnt child dreads the fire.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Act I, scene 2
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)
“4436. The burnt Child dreads the Fire.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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