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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
Forster, Edward M.
Excerpt from Howards End · This quote is tagged Ceremony · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.