Mark Twain Quotes on Death

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  1. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

  2. I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

  3. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  4. To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.

  5. Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

  6. None but the dead have free speech.

  7. I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly

  8. I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

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