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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.163532.21610@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec30.135322.879@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:35:32 GMT
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- enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
- | Can anyone recommend to me a good (and accurate)
- | source of "famous last words" quotes? Is there
- | such a thing as a book on the subject??
-
- Since everybody else seems to be ignoring this request, and posting
- their favorites...
-
- George V, as reported by the Palace:
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- "How is the Empire?"
-
- George V, as more reliably reported, when being offered a convalescent
- trip to Bognor, a seedy seaside resort:
-
- "Bugger Bognor!"
-
- And an atheist philosopher, but I forget which (Descartes? Voltaire? Hegel?)
-
- "Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son mĪtier"
- (God will forgive me. It's his profession)
-
- Goethe:
-
- "More Bud Lite!"
-
- or something like that...
- --
- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org
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- Shine out, fair sun, with all your heat! Black winter freezes to his seat...
- The boneless fish close quaking lies...the stars in icicles arise!
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