Italian Proverb Quotes
At a dangerous passage, yield to precedence.
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Italian Proverb
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This is one of the rare proverbs dealing with the importance of intelligence and foreknowledge.
Holmes was a young soldier at the battle. This quote is also sometimes attributed to General Horatio Wright, who was present at the battle and actually got the President down to safety, but we regard it as unlikely that a sophisticated, mature general would have addressed the President so rudely
See Cicero for the origin.
Common proverb in Louisiana