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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

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The line comes from Satan's council of fallen angels, where the speaker is mocking the risk-takers among his own kind. Milton made the proverb out of an argument about who among the devils is willing to take the worst risk, and the sting has stayed in the line ever since.

Source: Paradise Lost, Book III

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