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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.

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4, 13. (A proverb of the Bactriani) | J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward (1882) p. 514

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