“Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!”

— Thomas Carlyle

1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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