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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
Donald Rumsfeld

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
Edwin Edwards

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Sextus Propertius

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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