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“His bark is worse than his bite.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Jacula Prudentum.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 438c1e11c8d6fc2c0e9ee30f34f75ec4595c1603d4ee5c840c6ec61b1c74cfe2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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