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5 Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Death

Samuel Langhorne Clemens quotes on death

  1. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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  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.

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  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.

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  4. 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.

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

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