“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” Attributed to Mark Twain (some say misattributed). Seems appropriate for the occasion.
Twain never said it. In fact, no one ever said it in precisely that form. Matt Blum at Wired has the fact-check: the quotation actually comes from Clarence Darrow, the lawyer of Scopes Trial fame. Here’s a fuller version of the quote, which appears in Darrow’s 1932 work The Story of My Life:
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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All of the above text came from this website, I merely copied and pasted.