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“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7c7174a7ead7094fbc550e7fe70d1926c3c084b32538acf55e55ccdfe9cc9b20
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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