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So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1859). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.66
So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed, and lo, on our right hand or on