“This is the fourth?”
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“This is the fourth?”
“"What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?"”
“More light!”
“Drink to me.”
“I don't fell good.”
“The fog is rising.”
“Now comes the mystery.”
“Go away...I'm alright.”
“Let the tent be struck.”
“My work is done why wait.”
“Lord, let me live until I die.”
“Thomas Jefferson -- still surv,”
“The best of it is, God is with us.”
“Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
“Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
“Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”
“It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. [Dec. 14, 1977]”
“Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?”
“And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]”
“Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]”
“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?”
“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”