“Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and ’t will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, ’t will leave him alone:
But ’t will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.”

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)

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