Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fool. Hebrew, "fool in his folly. "The danger is not greater in meeting (Calmet) a female bear, though it be the most terrible. (Aristotle, Anim. ix. 1.)