| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16276 |
| QUOTATION: | Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Dickens (18121870), British novelist. Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 15, p. 179 (1839). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickens Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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