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• Religions are born and may die, but superstition is immortal.
• Sometimes I don't care if I never die.
• Best of all is never to have been born. Second best is to die soon.
• One half of the children born die before their eighth year.
  This is nature's law; why try to contradict it?...
• Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, / But Genius must be bo
  and can never be taught. -- John Congreve...
• Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
• Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.