Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are … - Joyce Cary

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Joyce Cary

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

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