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“So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum.”
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- Source:
- Poetry, a Rhapsody.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 19b1e5e62f1dacedbaf5495e81c1f16272bf718f2922d1429f3f4c0124451add
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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