I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, …

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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. ✨ Charles Dickens (1872). A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens, p.209
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. ✨ Charles Dickens (1872). A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens, p.209

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