The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Never find fault with the absent.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Judicious absence is a weapon.