When somebody was telling a certain great minister that people were discontented; "Pho, said he, half a dozen fools are prating in a coffeehouse, and presently think their own noise about their ears is made by the world." (Jonathan Swift)

When somebody was telling a certain great minister that people were discontented; "Pho, said he, half a dozen fools are prating in a coffeehouse, and presently think their own noise about their ears is made by the world."

Jonathan Swift

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