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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
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- Source:
- Of Death.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 46291155a37add4937ec6d617d5a65ac98eab1ac850fd4425704e2728839ee06
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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