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Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals

CHAPTER I
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Remember these cautions of your mama and obey them strictly.
A young lady twenty years old died in Boston yesterday very suddenly.

She eat her dinner perfectly well and was dead in five minutes after.

Her name was Ann Hinkley.

You see, my dear boys, the great uncertainty of life and, of course, the importance of being always prepared for _death_, even a _sudden death_, as we know not what an hour may bring forth.

This we are sensible of, we cannot be _too soon or too well_ prepared for that all-important moment, as this is what we are sent into this world for.
The main business of life is to prepare for death.


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