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

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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. – George Ade

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

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