“Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.”

—  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.

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