• I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet 1788-1824
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1. perceived
2. whatever
3. remained
4. longest
5. things
6. those

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust. by : Lord George Byron

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