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A bunch of people said it, but it looks like Lucan said it first. From John
Barlett's "Familiar Quotations":
"Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants
themselves." Lucan (A.D. 39-65) from The Civil War, Ib. II, 10 (Didacus
Stella).
"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may
see farther than a giant himself." Robert Burton (1577-1640)from "The Anatomy
of Melancholy" (1621-51).
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