“It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.”
Ian Fleming book Thunderball
Source: Thunderball
“I’d rather die at sea, with one deep gulp of death,
than die by inches on this desolate island here!”
XII. 351–352 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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