Trouble Rather The Tiger In His Lair Than The Sage Amongst His Books.

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Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books.
For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring,
but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the
flicking of a finger.
-- Chinese proverb

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