FEBRUARY 18. He sits as a cat but leaps as a tiger. Tamil.

 

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“Tiruṭṭānta caṅkirakam, or, A collection of proverbs in Tamil: with their …“

The crouching of Tiger is the preparation for its leaping.

Would it be safe to descend into a river on a clay horse?

“A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases : based on Macintosh’s collection“

Children are fond of carrying cats ; even a grown-up person would tire in time of a light burden.

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  1. Thus have I read of the people of Bengala, who are so much
    afraid of tigers that they dare not call them tigers, but give
    them other gentle names, as some physicians that will not
    call their impatient patient’s disease madness, but melan-
    choly. — T. Adams, Woyks, p. 507. 1629.
    http://www.archive.org/stream/leanscollectanea0201lean/leanscollectanea0201lean_djvu.txt


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