| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 10043 |
| AUTHOR: | Old Testament |
| QUOTATION: | The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ecclesiastes xii. 5. [text] |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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