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— Charles Caleb Colton"The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not."
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Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
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