Quote by Ambrose Bierce
A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. – George Ade

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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