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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler
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Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

 Raymond Chandler

— chapter 1 (Farewell, My Lovely (1940))

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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."

 Diogenes of Sinope

— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 44

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Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."
— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 44

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