"Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct."
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"They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?"
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"Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible."
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"The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love."
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"I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion."
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"You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success."
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"I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep."
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"Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion."
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"There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour."
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"What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?"
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"A lion may die of an ass's kick."
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"The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain"
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"If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another."
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"This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion. "Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase. "Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much."
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"Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones"
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"We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us"."
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"You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows."
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"I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him."
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"A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside."
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"When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore."
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