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.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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