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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bcd58a792bba6d9b115cd381578a1ead6c40a20a3eeda167db0bf392adff83b9
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