![If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-they-the-dead-should-speak-it-would-be-found-that-in-matters-of-opinion-no.jpg)
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His huff arrived and he departed in it. Alexander Woollcott
departed endangered particular previous publicly reluctant
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departed platitudes mortals
Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth. Ambrose Bierce
departed goes-on oscars
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departed far itself speak sphere women
The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public. Lucy Stone
departed demented
Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented... Kelley Armstrong
departed immortal fallen
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great! Lord Byron
departed found heard joseph man
And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. Bible Bible
departed heaven island mountain moved
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
matter
Meaning, however, is no great matter. Charles Stuart Calverley
matter remember
Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter. Charles Stross
matter
Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me. Akshay Kumar
matter poor succeed
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matter no-matter-what problem
There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what. Chris Colfer
matter opponents cry
I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless. Chris Bosh
matter faces defining-moments
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That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy. Alanis Morissette
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I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible. Chloe Sevigny
would-be colony
What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".
would-be assuming narcissism
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. Bryan Fuller
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You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of. L. Ron Hubbard
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Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Bill Rancic
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Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable. Edward Gorey
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. Antonin Artaud