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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Source: Romola, ch. 50 (1863). -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.