Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Alexander the Great

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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

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I Thessalonians 4:13

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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