"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

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Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

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Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

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"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

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"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

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"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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Erik H. Erikson, American Psychologist

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Robert Smith Surtees, English Novelist

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