“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”

—  Elbert Hubbard

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)

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