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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. ↗

— Leon Askin

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

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