Death
After a reign of nearly 43 years, King Gustaf V died in Stockholm, due to flu complications on 29 October 1950.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown,
What dreadful noise of waters in my ears!
What sights of ugly death within my eyes!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Can even death dry up
These new delighted lakes, conclude
Our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)