“And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.”

Musophilus (1599), Stanza 97, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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“And for the few that only lend their ear,That few is all the world.”

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“And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.”