“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”
Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American politician
As quoted in Four Talks for Bibliophiles (1958) by George Allen, p. 70
“I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercised regularly.”
Source Undetermined in Everyone's Mark Twain (1972) compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, p. 161
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