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Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.”
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“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
Source: Remark to Lord Aberdare on being welcomed to the House of Lords (1876), cited by Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli: A Biography (1993), p. 563.
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