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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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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. – Ambrose Bierce

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. – Ambrose Bierce

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The house appointed for all the living. – Bible

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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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The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that hes dead. – Source Unknown

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Funeral Blues

– W. H. Auden

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How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer

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