“All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
“Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later, delicate death.”
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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