"A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass."
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"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest."
"All time is is how much change you can pack into a second."
"He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded."
"You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it."
"I pack every minute I can with something to do."
"We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place."
"other kids pack lunch"
"I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am."