Quote#Death
In teaching me the way to live
Quote byGeorge Pope Morris · 1802–1864
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: My Mother's Bible, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
In teaching me the way to live It taught me how to die.
— George Pope Morris
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