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“Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a831bcdccd4db47abffbfcdaf30e90f8cd03f9ed004f43aa83cd41ad6dead538
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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