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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need.