On another occasion, upon receiving a letter informing him of the death of one of the local gentry which set forth in great detail the deceased's many titles of nobility and those of his family, he exclaimed: "Death has a broad back! What a great load of honours it can be made to bear, and how assiduous are the minds of men that they can use even the tomb in the service of vanity.
-Victor Hugo
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