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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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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain

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

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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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