“In teaching me the way to live
It taught me how to die.”
George Pope Morris (1802–1864) American publisher
My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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
Source: Jude the Obscure
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The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…" by Thomas Hardy?
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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
There is no evidence that Franklin said this. Scholars believe the saying comes from the Xunzi.
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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“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”
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Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
