Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enric…

Ambrose Bierce
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.92, University of Georgia Press
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.92, University of Georgia Press

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