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 "Thomas Jefferson still survives." (Refering to his good friend of twenty-five years.) |
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John Adams |
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"This is the last of earth! I am content" (He
collapsed from a stroke in the House of Representatives in 1848.) |
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John Quincy Adams |
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"Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait." In responce to the Doctor saying "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you." |
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Ethan Allen |
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"Pardonnez-moi,
monsieur." After stepping on the foot of the Executioner. (She was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by beheading) |
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Marie Antoinette |
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"The ladies have to go first. . . . Get in the lifeboat, to please me. . . . Good-bye, dearie. I'll see you later." (After putting his pregnant wife on one of the last life boats on the Titanic.) |
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John Jacob Astor |
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is
over." |
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Ludwig van Beethoven |
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"No" (In response to his wife Mabel whispering to him, "Don't leave me.") |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
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"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country. . . . useless . . . useless . . ." (After being shot in the neck by a solidier while hiding in a barn in Virginia.) |
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John Wilkes Booth |
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"I lingered around them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth." |
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Emily Bronte |
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"Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that at least I meant well for my country." |
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James Buchanan |
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