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Cursing

For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Aurora Leigh”

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Famous Epitaphs/Last Words

Famous Epitaphs A reader sent me a bit of trivia she thought I might be interested in (she was right!) John Keats, great poet, who died in 1821, wrote his own epitaph, which is as follows: “Here lies one whose … Continue reading

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