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God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Age: 76 †
Born: 1773
Born: October 23
Died: 1850
Died: January 26
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