Careless Comments .

'Only the good die young' (originally, 'Whom the gods love, dies young' by Herodotus. or later 'The good die young' by William Wordsworth) .....

Nicholas Parsons CBE Was A British Media Legend
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.... is one of those phrases that get trotted out regularly e.g. when young people die in a car accident, or increasingly when a celebrity dies (at any age).