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At first I was irritated: I’m just trying to watch this dumb Roomba fall over, and this guy is cackling like he’s got something to prove.

From The Verge • Jul. 19, 2017

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Shakespeare says:   The nightingale, if she should sing by day,   When every goose is cackling, would be   No better a musician than the wren.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie