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The dog in the kennel barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not feel them. You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty. He that is a donkey, and believes himself a deer, finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch. Timid dogs bark worse than they bite. Beware of a silent dog and of still water. Old crows are hard to catch. Where there are no dogs the fox is a king. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.