I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.

 

I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
--
Remark to Lord Aberdare on being welcomed to the House of Lords (1876), cited by Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli: A Biography (1993), p. 563.

 

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