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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
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• I look upon you as gem of the old rock.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial...
• Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,--when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.
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• Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!
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• He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. -- Sir Thomas Browne
• No man can lose what he never had. -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
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