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'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'

'Honest people don't hide their deeds.'

'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'

'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'

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Thornton, West Yorkshire
Died in Haworth, West Yorkshire
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. - D H Lawrence
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