“The lion is not so fierce as painted.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
Of Preferment. Compare: "is bark is worse than his bite", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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