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Quote by Harold MacMillan
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. -

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. – Harold MacMillan

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. – Mark Twain

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I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died – Mark Twain

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