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Quote by Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives f

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. – Mark Twain

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I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. – Thomas Lux

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There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley

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Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” – Virgil, Minor Poems, Copa

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