"Never find fault with the absent."
— Alexander Pope
January 1, 1970
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Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
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Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".