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Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), U.S. president. Correspondence, letter, April 29, 1833, to William B. Lewis, V, 66.

Jackson's reply on learning of the death of his friend Judge John Overton.

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