“It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful, as the other.”

—  Francis Bacon

The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Death

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