When a blood relative sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance
should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
- Letters from the Earth
In order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and
know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony.
- Roughing It
Illustration
by True Williams from "Lionising Murderers,"
first edition of SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, 1875
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