With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possiblybe on this side of the grave.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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