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- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947), In Allsop, The Bootleggers (1961)
- He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729), Love for Love (1695)
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
- Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
- I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Medley
- Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
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