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Observations March 23, 2014 - Timorous

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:22 am
by SportsFan68
"Fortune favors the bold" contrasts with "look before you leap," and there are lots of other examples of aphorisms which contradict each other, but I've never heard of a timorous saying which contradicts "you can't cross a chasm in two jumps."