| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 3151 |
| QUOTATION: | The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Aesop (6th century B.C.), Greek fabulist. “The Fly on the Wheel,” Fables, trans. by Francis Bacon in his essay “Of Vain-Glory.” |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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