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• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while… — Jean de la Bruyere
• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same… — Samuel Beckett
• Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well. — Andre Siegfried
• When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. — Plato
• I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead. — April Winchell
• Do not criticize any other martial arts or speak ill of others, as it will surely come back to you. The mountain… — Koichi Tohei
• Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
• T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. — Ronald Reagan
• I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans. — Fred Upton
• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. — Propertius
• I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. — Edwin Edwards
• Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit… — Anthony Trollope

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