"The lion is not so fierce as they…" — George Herbert
"The lion is not so fierce as they paint him."
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- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive… — Alain Badiou
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- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love… — Henry Ward Beecher
- An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no… — Felix Adler
- People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and… — Katherine Boo
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- I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. — Octavia Butler
- I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman… — Lord Byron
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of… — John C. Calhoun
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