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You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death; I always leave those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges in these cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think every Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.

— John Gay The Beggar's Opera (1728)

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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.

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