“There are moments in our lives when we all are kings of some place, some time. Some tomb.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
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“When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.”
Thoughts in Westminster Abbey (1711).
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