Ambrose Bierce Peculiar Quotations
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- Samuel Johnson
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- John Hurt
- Shane Claiborne
- Ambrose Bierce
- Brian Eno
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Charles Darwin
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- Clive Bell
- George Morgan
- Isaac Asimov
- John Marshall
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Luc De Clapiers
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Eggs Quotes
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.