The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Carl…

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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p.170, Princeton University Press
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