"Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion."

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Source : "The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents". Book by Edward Topsell, p. 756, 1653.

Edward Topsell

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“Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.”
“If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”
“What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.”

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“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

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“Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.”
“If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.”

Source : Jane Kenyon (1990). “Let evening come: poems”, Graywolf Pr
“Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.”
“Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.”

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