Samuel Butler: There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and

There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be o — Samuel Butler

There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.

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