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- As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.'†
Chpt 14perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Love each other or perish.
Chpt 14 *perish = cease to exist
- "Love each other or perish," Morrie said.†
Chpt 14perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- He ended the subject by quoting the poem he believed in like a prayer: "Love each other or perish."†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existYou may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)