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[ Also see Death Execution Guillotine Punishment ]

It is the toilet of death, but it leads to immortality.
      - Charlotte Corday (Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont)

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.
      - Georges Jacques Danton

They are sending me to the scaffold. Well, my friends, we must go to it gayly.
      - Georges Jacques Danton

When they go smiling to the scaffold, it is time to break in pieces the sickle of death.
      - Georges Jacques Danton

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
      - Jacques Louis David

I hope the edge of your guillotine is sharper than your scissors.
      - Charles Pineau Duclos

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.
      - William Shakespeare

That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation.
      - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)

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