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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Thomas Carlyle
Evil, Wicked, Alive
Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.