G. H. Hardy Quotes

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

G. H. Hardy

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  G. H. Hardy
  • Die
  • Sorry
  • Sorrow