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"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

"You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that."

"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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