“Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”

— Francis Bacon

Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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