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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
House
Immeasurably
Care
Clothe
Live
Solemnity
Always
Heightened
Would
Feed
Life
Sorry
Business
Death

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