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It is far easier to praise the dead than do justice to the living; and it was not strange, therefore, that eminent clergymen and doctors of divinity who had silently witnessed the peltings of Mr.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “It is far easier to praise the dead than do justice to the living; and it was not strange, therefore, that eminent…”
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Julian comments on the ease of praising the dead compared to acknowledging the struggles of the living.
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