You needn't be trying to comfort me, I tell you my dolly is dead! There's no use in saying she isn't, With a crack like that in her head

Quote by Margaret Janvier

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to...

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to...

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not...

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every...

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the...

The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the...

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the...

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad...

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad...

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness...

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness...

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the...

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the...