My reading has led me to the conclusion that the merchants tend to simply quote one another which seems to lead to a sort of grapevine effect, small important details being rewritten, oversimplified, or dropped.You'll find the more academic sites to be much more objective, although I would take certain parts of any site with a grain of salt, particularly Wet Web Media, as they do base many of their statements on a limited number of observations.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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