“Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 97
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“Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.”
— Mercedes Lackey, book By the Sword
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