Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

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1919

Weedon Grossmith died on June 14, 1919

What's the good of a home, if you are never in it?

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1927

Jerome K. Jerome died on June 14, 1927

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

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1928

Emmeline Pankhurst died on June 14, 1928

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

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1936

G. K. Chesterton died on June 14, 1936
English born Gabonese critic, essayist, novelist and poet, 1874-1936

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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