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Letter "B" » beetle
«Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.»
«Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.»
«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; / Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.»
«I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his opinions upon the Milky Way.»
«When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.»
«One beetle recognizes another.»
«In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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«The sense of death is most in apprehension;And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,In corporal sufferance finds a pang as greatAs when a giant dies.»