Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. Promises are all very good, but acts are far better.
“Holdfast is the only dog, my duck.”
Shakespeare: Henry V., ii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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