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• I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect… — Joseph Addison
• It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of… — Alan Alda
• I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would… — Brian Clough
• The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph… — Ludwig von Mises
• I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He… — Harry S. Truman
• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear,… — Rudyard Kipling
• I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life,… — Tom Peters
• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb
• Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
• A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would… — Unknown Author
• Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. — Edward Abbey
• For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with… — Pericles

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