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Words are the money of fools.

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

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

Poets are born, not paid.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.