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Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
More quotes by Alexander Pope
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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