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No Roman monument, with its Siste, viator, to the passing traveller, no “labor of an age in pilèd stones,” can match in grandeur that simple burial.
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Sumner compares the grandeur of a simple burial to that of grand monuments, emphasizing the profound significance of equality in death.
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