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Better a living dog, says the old proverb, than a dead lion; not so here.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Better a living dog, says the old proverb, than a dead lion; not so here.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses an old proverb to illustrate a point about the value of life versus death in a specific context.
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