Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 1217 |
AUTHOR: | Thomas F. Healey |
QUOTATION: | Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead. When Death claims the light of my brow, No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! |
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SUBJECTS: | Mortality |