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"I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry."
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"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."
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"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."
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"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
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"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it."
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"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."
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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"
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"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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"Just dying should not be a reason for taxes."
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"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
Family

"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."
Wisdom

"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them."
Family

"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
Manners

"Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."
Action

"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
Truth

"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
People

"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
Heaven

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
God

"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
Dying
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