No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.
Washington Irving
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Rural Funerals; Complete sentence checked in public-domain original essay, with surrounding passage through conclusion read. Corroborated by The Fourth Progressive Reader section LIII under Sorrow for the Dead. Irving’s narrator Geoffrey Crayon; author cred
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Rural Funerals
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