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“SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.”

Way Song Listening Habit Bird Best Way Peculiar Gave Up

Book:Audubon and His Journals

Source: Audubon and His Journals

“The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.”

Habit Humorous Something New Peculiar Refrigerators Snacks

Author:Rich Hall

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.”

Sometimes Habit Thrive Peculiar

Book:Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One

Source: Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One

“All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.”

Way Beautiful Habit Peculiar Really Great Exhibits

Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...

“Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.”

Self Whole Habit Determination Notion Myth Remarkable Peculiar Self Determination Rail

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”

Ifs Way May Happens Courses Events Design Habit Circumstances Eternal Repeats Peculiar Recurrence

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.”

Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)

“It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.”

Depends Habit Luck Peculiar Bad Luck Best Of Luck Fortune And Luck

Author:George S. Clason

“Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.”

Opinion Expression Habit Agree Peculiar

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Dies Human Beings Brain Nice Theory Months Habit Exercise Mouths Accounts Lips Come Up Obvious Observation Encounters Tall Peculiar Nice Day

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe