Death
Dent died at the age of 61 after a 'mysterious attack of blood poisoning'. There is a memorial tablet to him on the Britannia Hut above Saas-Fee.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Men are fools that wish to die!
Is ‘t not fine to dance and sing
When the bells of death do ring?”
—Unknown. Hey Nonny No! (L. 2–4)
“Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)