“ An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. ”
- Peter Utley- Copy
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“ Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing — to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
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