“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“; De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!”
— José Rizal, book El Filibusterismo
El Filibusterismo
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Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861–1896Related quotes
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Ne male loquare absenti amico.
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Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 205).
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