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I don't just talk to the dead.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The dead govern the living.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.