“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”
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“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”
DNA Lounge blog http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/04.html#18
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
Variant: The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.
“If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.”
English and Welsh (1955)
“It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.”
In an interview in Artforum, Nov. 83
Interviews
1920s, Toleration and Liberalism (1925)