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== [[Literature]] ==
* Denethor gives several of these in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''; the most notable is the one he gives when he {{spoiler|burns himself to death on his pyre}}.
* ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'': Horace Slughorn gives one of this when he agrees to give Harry his memory about {{spoiler|the time he told Tom Riddle about the Horcruxes}}.
* [[The Bible|The Book of Job]] is full of these, mainly delivered by Job himself, making this trope [[Older Than Dirt]].