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Quotes about epitaphs
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. (Emmet Robert)
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. (Emmet Robert)
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. (Emmet Robert)
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. (Emmet Robert)
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Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. (Emmet Robert)
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! (Emmet Robert)
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. (Emmet Robert)
The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right. (Emmet Robert)
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. (Emmet Robert)
At last God caught his eye. (Emmet Robert)
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. (Emmet Robert)
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