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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Never
Ninety
Funeral
Nine
Frowns
Hundred
Somber
Along
Funerals
Goes
Weddings
Quite
Picnics
Nature
Sunny

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