They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out the…

D. H. Lawrence
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. ✨ Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

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