Death
Wilder died on December 7, 1975, age 78, in Hamden, Connecticut, where he lived for many years with his sister Isabel. He was interred at Hamden's Mount Carmel Cemetery.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
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So those who enter death must go as little children sent.
Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead;
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.”
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“Those near death speak with sincere hearts.”
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Confucian Analects.
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Of watching you.”
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