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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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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly

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At last God caught his eye. – Harry Secombe

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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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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! – Helen Hunt Jackson

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. – Irvin S. Cobb

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