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Quote by Mark Twain
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a

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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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Humor
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. – Mark Twain

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Customs
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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Integrity
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Under the wide and starry sky,
– Adlai Stevenson

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Even the best of friends cannot attend each others funeral. – Kehlog Albran

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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. – Robert Frost

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Funerals

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

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I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything. – Laurent Lamothe

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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. – Russell Lynes

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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. – Bill Kristol

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