He would have liked his own funeral if he could have seen it. It was small and quiet, and really not at all pompous, as Michael had feared it might be. 'The dead,' he had said once, 'need nothing from the living, and the living can give nothing to the dead.' At 22, it had sounded precocious; at 34, it sounded mature, and this pleased Michael very much. Essentially a romantic, he had put away the trappings of romance, although he had loved them deeply and never known.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virgini...
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
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This site is a waste of time. Couldn't we just find these quotes in books? These quotes are chosen by some pompous asshole.
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Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
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