“Never find fault with the absent.”

— Alexander Pope

Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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