"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon."
"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
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Source: Alice James (1981). “The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence”, Berkeley : University of California Press
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