“There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make. He did not want to go, indeed the whole idea was distasteful to him; but he could not get out of it. He knew he would have to start some time, but he did not hurry with his preparations.”
Leaf by Niggle (1945)
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

Pierre Fauchery, as quoted by the character "Jules Labarthe"
The Age for Love

Source: Short fiction, Against Babylon (1986), p. 276

Johannes Climacus p. 22-23
1840s, Johannes Climacus (1841)

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress