fear itself

[Jonathan Lighter]

Of course.

Just testing you.

JL

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> This, of course, is already in The Yale Book of Quotations, together with
> earlier similar formulations by Montaigne and Francis Bacon.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> Of interest?
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>  1831 in Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope _Notes of Conversations with the
> Duke of Wellington 1831-1851_ (N.Y.: Longmans, 1888) 13: "The only thing I
> am afraid of," said the Duke, "is fear."
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> JL
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