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" For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. "
The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius - Page 318
by Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 438 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 28

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1850 - 724 pages
...security running over to the Continent — strengthening his argument by reference to the famous text— " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." But, unfortunately, of all the reasons he could have selected at that moment for running away, the...
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The Keepsake

Gift books - 1851 - 328 pages
...many were ill-natured enough to believe) that he had acted upon the very discreet principle, that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day," and had been by no means disposed to run the foolish risk of being " in battle slain," as in that case...
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The Kinnears [by H. Keddie].

Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 pages
...all like the alternative." " Will you try another game ? fortune does not always frown." " Ah ! ' but he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' " " So you hold that ' discretion is the better part of valour.' Willie does not countenance that...
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The Baronet's Family: A Novel

Anne Beale - 1852 - 392 pages
...enemy, but no sooner was his courage tried, than he found he could not stand fire, and proved that He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. In vain his tormentor, Morgan, praised his fortune and his person, and urged him to the charge ; he...
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Comparative Physiognomy: Or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals

James W. Redfield - Anatomy, Comparative - 1852 - 348 pages
...none. The Irish have to be parted. Not so the Spaniards : they fight upon the principle — " That he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day !" The military ambition of the Spaniard is concentrated in a victorious contest with John Bull —...
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St. George; Or, The Canadian League, Volume 2

William Charles McKinnon - American fiction - 1852 - 336 pages
...Oh, you know," remarked Rodolphe, with a sneer, " that ' discretion is the best part of valor,' and ' he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' It is an ugly thing to see the Judge put on the black cap, and pronounce the awful words, 'the sentence...
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The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 23-24

Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...distance, fled the field— doubtless he remembered the advice wrongly attributed to " Hudibras," that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Uis great object was to find out Nathalie, and acquaint her with the failure of his project. He knew...
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Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ...

George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...Lord Chesterfield, are thus, in a volume entitled, " The Pleasing Companion, or Guide to Fame." — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and tight again." It is also said they are to be found...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 3

1854 - 542 pages
...superciliously through her glass. ' Well, Maurice,' said the doctor, ' returned from the wars, I see — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Do you remember the old couplet of Pindar's V ' That is not Peter Pindar's, sir; you are quoting from...
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Yankee-notions, Volume 3

American wit and humor, Pictorial - 1854 - 398 pages
...himself. Somewhat sobered by these threats, Pctruchio bethought himself of the advice of Hudibras : "He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." So, heedless of the strangeness of his dress, he instantly slipt down the back stairs, and sought refuge...
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