It was prettily devised of Æsop, the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel, and said, "What a dust do I raise!" So are there some vain persons that, whatsoever goeth alone or moveth upon greater means, if they have never so little hand in it, they think it is they that carry it.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

It was prettily devised of Æsop, the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain...

It was prettily devised of Æsop, the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain...

It was prettily devised of Æsop, the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain...

It was prettily devised of Æsop, the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! So are there some vain...