“Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.”
in a letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic (1948)
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Maynard Owen Williams4
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Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798) Irish politician
Letter to Thomas Addis Emmet, William James MacNaven, Arthur O'Connor and John Sweetman (10 November 1798), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume III: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798 (2007), p. 402
“It's never as good as I hoped or as bad as I feared ~ Into My Hands”
Steve Kilbey (1954) British artist
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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1
“Fetch me my seven-league boots so I can catch the children.”
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) French author
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Little Thumb"