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Letter to F. T. Mappin (25 Sep 1855) - Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George | WIST Quotations
For I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who deserve them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to…