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Quote by Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. - Samuel Johnson

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

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. – Cyril Connolly

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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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Nor has his death the world deceivd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman livd least he like a wise one dyd. – Miguel de Cervantes

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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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These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile. – Ayrton Senna

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