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Debt of Nature
To pay the debt of Nature. To die. Life is a loan, not a gift,
and the debt is paid off by death.
“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid.”
Quarles: Emblems.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Debt of Nature from Infoplease:
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