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“The lion is not so fierce as painted.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f9134bd49d95da216bc84ad3992afa839cc9d5c417b17f497d493574748c237a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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