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Can anything be more monstrous than that the dead should be allowed to poison the living?— The Nebuly Coat
The contempt it shows for the memory of the dead is appalling; the credulity and ignorance it displays are inconceivable Miss Addams does not know that even from France they have banished absinthe.— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
The use of Prayers for the dead was a Catholic doctrine,--not condemned in the Articles; 2.— Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Only the dead were here, watched by the great birds, the treetops and the dawn.— The Long Roll
Winder is dead, and the courier who could have told is dead, and others whom I might have called are dead--dead, I will avow, because of my choice of action, though still--given that false order--I justify that choice!— The Long Roll

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