[lbo-talk] Celebrating the Death of Jerry Falwell

[C. G. Estabrook]

De mortuis nil nisi bonum -- a good maxim, but it has been variously translated, e.g., by Moms Mabley: "Now, I know: you ain't supposed to say nothin' but good about the dead.  Well, he's dead. GOOD." --CGE

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>Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:01:56 -0500
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>  
>
>-When Daniel Webster died, Martin Van Buren wrote in his journal, nisi
>mortuis . . .Doesn't apply in cases of this sort. (Quoted from memory
>and I may have the Latin wrong: whole proverb was [in Latin] "Of the
>dead speak only good.")
>
>Carrol
>
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