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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Richard Louis Evans		Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle

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	Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
	(1801-1866) Letter, 21 Oct 1859; in The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1970 - Scottish daughter of physician, writer at age 14, married Thomas Carlyle 1826.

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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.