Acta est fabula, plaudite

Emperor Augustus last words

As quick as boiled asparagus!

— Robert Graves

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Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark.

— , Last words, 5 June 1910

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.

— John Green

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I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expression is used.

— Last words of Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian

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