Of all the events which constitute a persons biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Of all the events which constitute a persons biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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