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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. – Alexander Smith

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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith

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