"people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous."
"Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last."
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Source: Mary Jane Holmes (1872). “Dora Deane, Or The East India Uncle: And Maggie Miller, Or Old Hagar's Secret”, p.78
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