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• It is better to wear out than to rust out.
• It is better to burn out than it is to rust.
• It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
• It's better to burn out than to rust out.
• It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Cumberland (1631-1718) -- in G.
  Horne The Duty of Contending for the Faith (1786) p. 21, n....
• It is better to wear out than to forget.
• Few minds wear out; more rust out. --Christian Nestell Bovee
• Life is to the universe as rust is to iron. We are
  in the final judgement (on a planetary scale, certainly), nothing more than an advanced form of corrosion, just one more way for the universe to wear itself out a little faster....