"Royalty is a fine burial shroud." — Theodora

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• Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca the Younger
• Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them… — Roderick Murchison
• Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. — Seneca the Younger
• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist… — Barack Obama
• Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use… — Unknown Author
• ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue… — Albert Einstein
• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion… — William Shakespeare
• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is… — Ann Coulter
• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext… — Jean Anouilh
• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when… — Edward Abbey
• "Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
• There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock

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