Quote#Beauty
It is very beautiful over there!
Quote byThomas Edison · 1847–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: These have sometimes been reported as his last words, but were actually spoken several days before his death, as he awoke from a nap, gazing upwards, as reported by his physician Dr. Hubert S. Howe, in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor.
English (original)
It is very beautiful over there!
— Thomas Edison
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