The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. -
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- Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.