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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear r

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. – Cyril Connolly

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. Thats the story of my private life. – Gloria Swanson

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Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. – Robert Emmet

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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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What is not conservative about saying, Dont go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way? – Ron Paul

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I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all that has gone beforeInto the night of time. – Aeschylus

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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, theyre necessary to reach the places weve chosen to go. – Richard Bach

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When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. – Author Unknown

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