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Often it happens that death, which takes away life, confers what life alone cannot give.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Often it happens that death, which takes away life, confers what life alone cannot give.”
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Sumner reflects on how death can bestow a significance that life could not provide.
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