“There are many busy-bodies in the world, always worrying, always rushing back and forth; every one wonders at them. They seem ready to jump out of their own skins; but in spite of it all, they make no more progress than does the Squirrel in his wheel.”

—  Ivan Krylov

An argosy of fables, "The Rain cloud" p. 402
The Fables (1883)

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