Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Pigmies
Let us not put pigmies on pedestals.
Barere.—To the French Assembly, in 1792.
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch’d on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Dr. Young.—Night VI. Line 309.