| Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and
grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. - "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" |
 AI image created by Barbara Schmidt |
| When a blood relative sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant
acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically
with his handkerchief. - Letters from the Earth In order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. - Roughing It |
Illustration
by True Williams from "Lionising Murderers,"
first edition of SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, 1875
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