Quote by Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Death
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. – Ernest Hemingway

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All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up. – Lana Turner

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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. – Sivananda

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. – Voltaire

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Your life may be the only Bible some people read. – Author Unknown

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Its a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus

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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. – John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

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