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He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
Essais, Book I, “That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die” (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book iii. Chap 2. Of Repentance
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
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