Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering i…

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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill

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