And Winston Churchill.
Here’s the updated article reference, since the upstream post somehow managed to route it through Yahoo (?!)
I personally love this quote, and it looks like it’s Clarence Darrow for sure
Mark Twain allegedly said of Cecil Rhodes, one of the architects of apartheid - “I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake”
“I really didn’t say everything I said.” - Yogi Berra
I would lose my shit if it turns out that that, too, was misattributed.
This isn’t going to be much help, but one of my favorite books is Twain’s “Roughing It”; I’ve read it 3-4 times since the 70’s, and recently listened to it on Audiobook. I’m pretty sure that the quote in question, or something similar to it, appears in that book.
DISCLAIMER: I’m the first to admit that my memory has devolved into a short piece of string.
The text for Roughing It is online at Project Gutenberg. I did a search for the word “obituary” and didn’t find it (a search for"obit" turned up two instances of “probity”, but no “obituary”).
QuoteInvestigator is a great site. I’d take its conclusions as a given.
Cool. I’ll go there myself and try “funeral.”
Thanks for the tip! Found the line I was remembering and it’s only similar in spirit.
“I gave no sign; but I made up my mind that if the auctioneer’s brother’s funeral took place while I was in the Territory I would postpone all other recreations and attend it.”