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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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

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Carpe Diem
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain

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Government
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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain

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

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Funerals

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

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. – Irvin S. Cobb

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Funerals

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Funerals

Random Quotes

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. – Adam Schiff

Category:
Failure

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. – Geronimo

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God

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Be Yourself

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Self