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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. – Charles Caleb Colton

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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. – Ogden Nash

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Oh! snatched away in beautys bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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