| "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent." »Sextus Propertius |
| "Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination." »Ovid |
| "Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet." »Karl Kleinpaste |
| "The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him." »Cicero |
| "At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid." »Homer |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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