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...mortuis nil nisi bonum...
...attention has been focused upon the diatribe in TIME, of March 29, directed against the memory of the late Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, quite obviously written by one unfamiliar with the text of the old Latin proverb enjoining upon all persons of good breeding to de mortuis nil nisi bonum...
Bishop Berkeley once said, "Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summon bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman...
Vacancy. Outside of his own clique of back-scratchers in Louisiana, Huey Long had few friends in public life. On the principle of de mortuis nil nisi bonum, his numerous enemies gave the Kingfish a charitable verbal sendoff. Spokesmen like General Johnson, Father Coughlin, James A. Farley and the New York Times chorused, in effect: "I didn't like anything about him, but I'm sorry he was assassinated...
...other picture at the University now, a word of praise for Allen Jenkins and William Gargan, for the rest of the cast, the director, and the whole movie--well, we wont say anything because we believe in the old Latin proverb which says "de mortuis nil nisi bonum...