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Show Beware of the Empty Wagon. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands thou-sands of cattle, reposed beneath the shadows of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine imag-ine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shriveled, meager, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. Edmund Burke. |