"Placed as the fossils are in their several……" — Roderick Murchison
"Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile."
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Roderick Murchison
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion…
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— Jean Anouilh
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