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“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 511.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d0e45d2e065776886f8194f3759646ca46adfaaf8fb0b6a6eacb0036852ff5c5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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