Guilds of Ankh-Morpork - Guild of Embalmers and Allied Trades

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“Chopin—Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet ... the scent of tuberoses ... Autumn rain.”
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—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

“If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)