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- From: christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen)
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- Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.043945.4572@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:39:45 GMT
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- My ever-handy 'Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes' (ed. Clifton Fadiman) contains
- quite a few last words. Here is just a sampling:
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- "God bless...God damn." -- James Thurber
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- "I die." -- Leonhard Euler
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- After his nurse suggested that he was feeling better...
- "On the contrary!" -- Henrik Ibsen
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- "Qualis artifex pereo!" ("How great an artist dies here!")
- -- Nero
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- Carl Christensen
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