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There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. -- Jean Paul
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. -- James Russell Lowell
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. -- Olin Miller
I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died. -- Sue Miller
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. -- Orson Scott Card
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. -- Lord Byron
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. -- Christian McEwen
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. -- Olin Miller
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead. -- Plutarch
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. -- Samuel Johnson
I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off. -- Christopher Moore
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral. -- Margaret Thatcher

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