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

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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Why shouldnt truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. – Mark Twain

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Its good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. – Mark Twain

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

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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 chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that hes dead. – Source Unknown

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