“If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.”
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Saki
"Reginald on the Academy"
Reginald (1904)
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