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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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374 |
AUTHOR:
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Alexander Smith (1830?1867) |
QUOTATION:
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Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either. |
ATTRIBUTION:
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ALEXANDER SMITH, Of Death and the Fear of Dying, Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country, pp. 7071 (1864, reprinted 1972). |
SUBJECTS:
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Death |
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