Source: Across the River and into the Trees
“when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
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The Last Gentleman (1966)
Context: He was a young man of pleasant appearance. Of medium height and exceedingly pale, he was nevertheless strongly built and quick and easy in his ways. Save for his deafness in one ear, his physical health was perfect. Handsome as he was, he was given to long silences. So girls didn't know what to make of him. But men liked him. After a while they saw that he was easy and meant no harm. He was the sort whom classmates remember fondly; they liked to grab him around the neck with an elbow and cuff him around. Good-looking and amiable as he was, however, he did not strike one as remarkable. People usually told him the same joke two or three times.
Charlie Sifford
(1922–2015) professional golfer
Sifford during an interview with Golf Digest, see My Shot: Dr. Charlie Sifford https://www.golfdigest.com/story/myshot_gd0612
Also see Obama calls black golf trailblazer Sifford a 'legend https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-golf-sifford/obama-calls-black-golf-trailblazer-sifford-a-legend-idUKKBN0L82J720150204 by Reuters
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
Variant: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía
William Stukeley
(1687–1765) English antiquarian
A Hastings White (ed.) Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life (1936) pp. 19-20. (1752)
Relating a conversation with Sir Isaac Newton.
