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The lion is beyond dispute Allow'd the most majestic brute; His valor and his generous mind Prove him superior of his kind. - John Gay The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Poor conquer'd lion--from that haughty glance Still speaks the courage unsubdued by time, And in the grandeur of thy sullen tread Lives the proud spirit of thy burning clime. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Epigrams (bk. X, 90) They rejoice Each with their kind, lion with lioness, So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 392) Rouse the lion from his lair. - Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman (heading of ch. VI), part of the Tales of the Crusaders A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living. - William Shakespeare A lioness with udders all drawn dry, Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis The royal disposition of that beast To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. - William Shakespeare The man that once did sell the lion's skin While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, iii)
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