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"I wish I had drunk more champagne" John Maynard Keynes, economist
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"Such is life." Ned Kelly |
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| "Now comes the mystery." Henry Ward Beecher, Congregationalist preacher | |
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"If
this is dying, then I don't think much of it" Lytton Strachey |
| "John, don't let the akward squad fire over me!" Robert Burns |
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"Are you sure this damn thing's safe?" Poisoner William Palmer on the scaffold |
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"This is no time for making new enemies" Voltaire (after being asked by a priest to renounce the Devil) |
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"Die, my dear Doctor, that's the last thing I shall do" Lord Palmerston |
| "God will
pardon me, it is his trade" Heinrich Heine |
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It is the most beautiful adventure in life" before drowning on RMS Lusitania |
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King George V |
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"I am just going out
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"Crito,
we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don't forget" Socrates |
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