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John Galsworthy Quotes: Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
         

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.


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This page presents the quote "Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.". Author of this quote is John Galsworthy. This quote is about deeds, memories, corpses,.