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If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. – Proverb

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Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. – Robert Emmet

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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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Dont pity me now, dont pity me never; Im going to do nothing for ever and ever. – James Agate

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