Carolina QuotesThere is a saying among the Masai of Africa—or maybe it's the Somali—that a brave man is frightened three times by a lion: when he first sees its track, when he first hears its roar, and when he first sees the lion in the flesh.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 16 (p. 165)
- work
- The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 165
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