The sentence above is a good paraphrase for which of these sentences from "Last Words of Great Men"?
A. "A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words
as he is about his last breath."
B. "Why, his will had to be fixed over; and then all the relations came;
and first one thing and then another interfered, till at last he only
had a chance to say, 'I still live, and up he went."
C. "He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and
trust to an intellectual spirit at the last moment to enable him to
say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity
with grandeur."
D. "Relying on his splendid abilities and his coolness in emergencies,
he trusted to a happy hit at the last moment to carry him through,
and what was the result?"