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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it—and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement.
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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
December 30, 1869
Died:
March 28, 1944
(aged 74)
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