I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.
I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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