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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 2116 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Burton (1577–1640) |
| QUOTATION: | Like Æsop’s fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. Æsop: Fables, book v. fable v. [back] |
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