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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.

Joyce Cary

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Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
Novelist
Writer
Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
Everywhere
Vulgar
Grief
Expenses
Evidence
Funeral
Poor
Unnecessary
Less
Display
Travesty
Earth
Curse
Ostentation
Foolish
Wasteful
Price
Pompous

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