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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
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