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Re: Why has no one said this yet?

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Originally posted by BrianR
To paraphrase Sir Walter Raleigh:

"Contemplating one's own death focuses the mind wonderfully."

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And I'm even more sure that someone else will correct me before the ink on their screen is dry.

"Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson", Sept. 19, 1777 entry

Another good one from the same source: "Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

My favorite SWR qoute is from Cassell's:

"'Tis a sharp remedy, but a sure one for all ills."

Feeling the edge of the axe which was to behead him. David Hume, History of Great Britain (1754).

Thank you, Maggie. I knew I was asking for it. But what the heck.

You only live once, unless you're a believer in reincarnation.

I only get to go around once. Thank goodness.

Brian