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• Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson
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• Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. — William Shakespeare
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• There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. — Homer
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