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“A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book iv. Fable 23, 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 340cbfc091a90d445a760aeecd0cec31f27e177f4625be2de6454d16c8ac9d14
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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