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If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epit...

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Her close friends have gathered.Lord, ain't it a shameGrieving togetherSharing the blame.But when sh...

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute...

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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never kne...

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A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on t...

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Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single min...

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One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken...

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Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it wa...

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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some...

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It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance i...

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Hunter S. ThompsonHell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the ...

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