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“The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 99d3bb684c254679b2280eedd6e487f8f20f7d05008532461817ebf5024e5a49
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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