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Dame Shirley
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“How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!”
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“... as is often said, nothing is strange in California.”
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“In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.”
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“... surely it would be kinder to take a man's life, than to poison him with the fatal passion for gambling.”
Dame Shirley, U.S. writer
(1819 - 1906)
Real name: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe.