“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”

— Thomas Hardy , book Jude the Obscure

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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Additional information may be read at the following websites:
http://dakinburdick.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tell-me-and-i-forget/
http://www.quora.com/History/Where-and-when-did-Benjamin-Franklin-say-Tell-me-and-I-forget-teach-me-and-I-may-remember-involve-me-and-I-learn
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/word-badger/2013/mar/24/whose-quote-really/
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