If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would belie

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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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. – Samuel Johnson

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. – Irvin S. Cobb

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! – Helen Hunt Jackson

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