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> [Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/acceptance-of-death-when-it-arrives-is-one-thing-but-to-allow-it-to/)

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## More by Ronald Blythe

> [Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/acceptance-of-death-when-it-arrives-is-one-thing-but-to-allow-it-to/)

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> [Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/death-used-to-announce-itself-in-the-thick-of-life-but-now-people/)

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> [Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/old-age-is-a-lot-of-crossed-off-names-in-an-address-book/)

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> [He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/he-longed-to-be-lost-but-he-couldn-t-bear-not-to-be-found/)

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> [Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/jane-austen-can-in-fact-get-more-drama-out-of-morality-than-most/)

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> [To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/to-be-old-is-to-be-part-of-a-huge-and-ordinary-multitude-the-reason/)

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> [One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/one-of-the-reasons-why-old-people-make-so-many-journeys-into-the-past/)

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> [The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/the-ordinariness-of-living-to-be-old-is-too-novel-a-thing-to/)

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> [I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/i-sometimes-think-that-god-will-ask-us-that-wonderful-world-of-mine/)

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> [As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-blythe/as-for-the-british-churchman-he-goes-to-church-as-he-goes-to-the/)

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