"And every last one of us can do better than give up."
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"Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars."
"It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache."
"The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive."
"If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote."
"I'll say it one last time: Be brave."
"I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last."
"There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive."
"Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are."
"Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows."
"The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool."
"Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last."
"We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last."
"Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young."
"Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce."
"The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees."
"It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending."
"Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation."
"The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night."
"To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film."