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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 596
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to EDMUND BURKE. Unverified.
SUBJECTS: Fear