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"Thank God I have done my duty...Drink drink, fan fan, rub rub."

January 1, 1970

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Who: British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson; This is recorded definitively in an account by Nelson's ship surgeon, Dr. William Beatty. That Nelson said "Kiss me, Hardy", often believed to be "Kismet, Hardy" in his last hours, after being mortally wounded is extensively documented in contemporary accounts, including that of people actually present. That they were not his actual last words is also extensively documented, though not as clearly in many popular accounts, and they have commonly been mist

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Who: British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson; This is recorded definitively in an account by Nelson's ship surgeon, Dr. William Beatty. That Nelson said "Kiss me, Hardy", often believed to be "Kismet, Hardy" in his last hours, after being mortally wounded is extensively documented in contemporary accounts, including that of people actually present. That they were not his actual last words is also extensively documented, though not as clearly in many popular accounts, and they have commonly been mist