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Van Gogh on his brother's upcoming marriage: "It__ because he__ in Holland, where he__ getting married one of these days. Now, while not denying the advantages of a marriage in the very least, once it has been done and one is quietly set up in one__ home, the funereal pomp of the reception &c., the lamentable congratulations of two families (even civilized) at the same time, not to mention the fortuitous appearances in those pharmacist__ jars where antediluvian civil or religious magistrates sit _ my word _ isn__ there good reason to pity the poor unfortunate obliged to present himself armed with the requisite papers in the places where, with a ferocity unequalled by the cruellest cannibals, you__e married alive on the low heat of the aforementioned funereal receptions.
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Van Gogh on his brother's upcoming marriage: "It__ because he__ in Holland, where he__ getting married one of these days. Now, while not denying the advantages of a marriage in the very least, once it has been done and one is quietly set up in one__ home, the funereal pomp of the reception &c., the lamentable congratulations of two families (even civilized) at the same time, not to mention the fortuitous appearances in those pharmacist__ jars where antediluvian civil or religious magistrates sit _ my word _ isn__ there good reason to pity the poor unfortunate obliged to present himself armed with the requisite papers in the places where, with a ferocity unequalled by the cruellest cannibals, you__e married alive on the low heat of the aforementioned funereal receptions.

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