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Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. - Chinese Proverb

Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. – Chinese Proverb

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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. – George Gurdjieff

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

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