Death
He died just six days after his eighty-sixth birthday, when he was struck and instantly killed by a C&P Telephone Company vehicle, while walking along the road near his farm in Centreville, Virginia.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For ‘tis not in mere death that men die most.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)