Crossword puzzle clue "than lions ii samuel"

" . . . ___ than lions": II Samuel

Place to see lions and sea lions

"Friendship is like ___, easier made than kept": Samuel Butler

Hamlet's "A little more than kin, and less than kind," e.g.

Antlered animal that's smaller than a moose, bigger than a deer

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the ___; nothing is more difficult than to understand him": Dostoyevsky

More than fair, less than great

Whence the line "A little more than kin, and less than kind"