"What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?"
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Oliver Goldsmith, Punning epitaph on John Newbery, the publisher; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 231.
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