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I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I a

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died – Mark Twain

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. – Mark Twain

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Even the best of friends cannot attend each others funeral. – Kehlog Albran

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The house appointed for all the living. – Bible

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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. – Alexander The Great

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If the sky falls, hold up your hands. – Author Unknown

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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[Man] asks from prose, only under a more obscure and indefinite form, what he expects from poetry; and indeed, where is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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