"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity,……" — Oscar Wilde

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• Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
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• Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
• Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner
• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it… — Pearl S. Buck

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