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• Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
  -- John Sloa...
• We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
  -- Mimnermus (Tragedian) -- Frag. 1...
• We are on strike. Why should this seem so startling?
  There is only one kind of men who have never been on strike in human history....
• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Epilogue...
• Gonna live while I'm alive - I'll sleep when I'm dead.
• America is the only country left where we teach languages so that no pupil can speak them.
  -- John Erskine...