It seems to me most strange that men sho... A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. The ancient Chinese torture tactic known as lingchi — which translates loosely to “slow slicing,” “lingering death,” or “death by a thousand cuts” — was used as a method of execution from the seventh century up until 1905, when it was officially outlawed. The phrase “death by a thousand cuts” has been wrongly attributed to William Shakespeare. Nowhere in his plays does that phrase appear, although he does talk about death often. Lingchi, translated as everything from "death by a thousand cuts" to "slow slicing," is a Chinese form of slow torture execution that was practiced for hundreds of … This would have been the equivalent of Tom Cruise "jumping the couch" on Oprah. Who really knows at what one point a phrase or figure of speech becomes a part of cultural tongue. Back then, the New York post could have run a little blurb about this Austalian Bloke who witnessed a death by a thousand cuts. William Shakespeare — ‘A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.

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