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“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some...” John Muir, “Stickeen” - 1897

“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“It takes two to make an accident.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“We do not suffer by accident.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults—ah!—there is the sting of life.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1893

“A concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it.” John Stuart Mill, “A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive” - 1843

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