“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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