Best-sellers: Top 10 famous last words
1 Bugger Bognor George V 2 I must sleep now Byron 3 Don't let the awkward squad fire over me Burns 4 Let down the curtain, the farce is over Rabelais 5 I fear not this fire Wishart, at the stake 6 Die, that's the last thing I shall do] Palmerston 7 This is no time for making new enemies Voltaire 8 Light, more light Goethe 9 I shall hear in heaven Beethoven 10 You may go home, the show is over Demonax (philosopher)
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