The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
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I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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When pious frauds and holy shifts Are dispensations and gifts.
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