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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 38723 |
| QUOTATION: | Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 7, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). Spoken by a fictional Benjamin Franklin. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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