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“Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7db177894df494c393001db823aad65a92a3bb71f5339faa5423f64d433d12ad
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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