“I am come to leave my bones among you.”
Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530) English political figure and cardinal
To the Abbot of Leicester, knowing that he was dying. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWolsey(Cardinal).htm
“O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.”
Source: Epitaph of Cyrus, as quoted in Life of Alexander, in Plutarch : The Age of Alexander, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert (1973), p.326.
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