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I scorched my intellect into a cinder of stolidity.

-Carlyle,Jane Baillie ne¤  e Jane Baillie Welsh
Quoted in  Alexander Carlyle (ed) New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (1903),'Mrs Carlyle's Notebook'.

She, she is dead; she's dead; when thou know'st this, Thou know'st how dry a cinder this world is.

-Donne,John
  'An  Anatomy of the World: The First  Anniversary'.

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