1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
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