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This stratagem to' amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.

Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 61
by George Willis - 1855
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Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives

Marc Bekoff, John A. Byers - Psychology - 1998 - 294 pages

...position in which one is maximally vulnerable to injury, should the dominant animal choose to inflict it. 'For, those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain', credited to Samuel Butler, is one of several variations on a theme that reoccurs many times throughout...

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