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Charles Dickens1812–1870

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens on life and death

Bleak House (1853), Chapter XLVII

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