• For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

    Charles Dickens: For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
    Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.215