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Famous quotes containing the words died and/or childless:

    Yet
    Ere the season died a-cold
    Borne upon a zephyr’s shoulder
    Irose through the aureate sky
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
    Francis Bacon (1561–1626)