“Fortune assists the Bold, the Valiant Man
Oft Conqueror proves, because he thinks he can.”

—  John Ogilby

Fab. LII: Of the Forrester, the Skinner, and a Bear, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)

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