Severn, lift me up, I am dying. (27)
Don’t breathe on me, it comes like ice. (28)
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Both 27 and 28 are deathbed utterances by John Keats as recorded by friend and hospice nurse Joseph Severn.
The world is my idea. (29)
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The opening proposition to Arthur Schopenauer’s The World as Will and Idea.
Saint Augustine said his first teacher was also the first person he ever saw who could read without moving his lips. (30)
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Always confusing: Aquinas and Augustine.
Saxo Grammaticus (31)
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It is not impossible that the young actress Molière married when he was forty, and with whose family he had been closely connected in the theater for years, was his own illegitimate daughter. (32)
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