“"Mrs. M., you seem to be very sick." " Yes," said she, "I am dying." "And are you ready to die?" "Sir, God knows I have taken Him at His word, and I am not afraid to die."”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.

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