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“Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 't is their nature too.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Divine Songs. Song xvi.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 688f40db6bdfeccf89416d5b918f970a05b88f317ba68c2e564f9873224c8878
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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