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Quotation from The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
“since here we have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her.”
The Age of Fable, Chapter VI, Baucis and Philemon (Project Gutenberg #4925)
Asked by Jupiter to name a wish, the old man asks for himself and his wife to serve the temple and to die together.
Citation: "since here we have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her." — Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, Chapter VI, Baucis and Philemon (Project Gutenberg #4925). (id bulfinch-age-of-fable-q5)
Virtues: Charity
Portrait: ThomasBulfinch, Bulfinch, Public domain.
