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title: "7 Come Bury Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [“Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/do-they-come-to-bury-the-others-or-to-be-entombed-to-give-life-or-to/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

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> [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me-your-ears-i-come-to-bury-caesar-not/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherry-thomas/i-had-this-daft-idea-to-come-and-bury-the-past-except-the-past-is-not/)

[Sherry Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherry-thomas/)

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> [“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/i-come-to-bury-caesar-not-to-praise-him-the-evil-that-men-do-lives/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalid-gibran/once-as-i-was-burying-one-of-my-dead-selves-the-grave-digger-came-by/)

[Khalid Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalid-gibran/)

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> [When I die and they come for me bury me a g.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tupac-shakur/when-i-die-and-they-come-for-me-bury-me-a-g/)

[Tupac Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tupac-shakur/)

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> [“Except it’s not treasure we’ve come to bury. Just my daughter’s castrated cat. He”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/except-it-s-not-treasure-we-ve-come-to-bury-just-my-daughter-s/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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