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The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right. – Gregory Nunn

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If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. – Gregory Nunn

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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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