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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

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The Christians Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. – 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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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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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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Funerals

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 sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. – Sergio Aragones

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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Pauls group. – Linda McCartney

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Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while hes president? I dont think its a coincidence. – Rush Limbaugh

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