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John Adams,
U.S. president
“Thomas
Jefferson... still survives...” (He didn’t know that Jefferson had died
earlier the same day.)
Ethan
Allen, American Revolutionary War general In response to an attending doctor
who attempted to comfort him by saying, “General, I feat the angels are waiting
for you.” “Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well, let ‘em wait.”
Lady
Nancy Astor, English politician and society dame When she woke briefly
during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside:
“Am I
dying or is this my birthday?“
P.
T. Barnum, entrepreneur “How were the receipts today at Madison Square
Garden?”
John
Barrymore, actor “Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore
would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”
Napoleon
Bonaparte ‘Josephine..."
Winston
Churchill, British Prime Minister “l’m bored with it all.”
Charles
Darwin, scientist “I am not the least afraid ~ die.”
Amelia
Earheart, aviator In a letter to her husband before her last flight:
“Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. women must try to
do things as men have tried.” Final radio communication before her I
disappearance:
“KHAQQ calling
ltasca. We must he on you, hut cannot see
you. Gas is
running low.
Tbomas AIva Edison, inventor
extraordinaire “It is very beautiful over there.”
Elizabeth
I, Queen of England “All my possessions for a moment of time.”
Benjamin
Franklin, American statesman and inventor
“A dying man
can do nothing easy.
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