Edward Topsell Quotes
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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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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
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Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.
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There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
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God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.