“I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.”
Aulularia, Act III, sc. 4, 13; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Aulularia (The Pot of Gold)
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.”
The Colonel’s Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6
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