"Apples taste sweetest when they're going."
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"Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch."
"I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't."
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline."
"The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines."
"These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction."
"You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do."