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Mark Twain

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The art of inhumation

There’s one thing in this world which a person don’t say,–‘I’ll look around a little, and if I find I can’t do better I’ll come back and take it.’ That’s a coffin.

Hygiene and sentiment

The adoption of cremation would relieve us of a muck of threadbare burial-witticisms; but, on the other hand, it would resurrect a lot of mildewed old cremation-jokes that have had a rest for two thousand years.