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My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better read more
My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to read more
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of.
Until you're broken, you don't know what you're made of.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people read more
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years read more
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart read more
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
