Samuel DaviesThe venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
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The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. "The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals" is a quote by author Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's quote is used to express his belief in an afterlife, or afterlife. He believed his own death would not be the end.
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