"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."

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"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."

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"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."

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"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."

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"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."

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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."

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