Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 40: VERSES FROM EURFI.

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"To forget the virtuous actions of a worthy man, "And to keep a register of his blemishes and vices, "Is all that can be expected from self-applause and hypocrisy."
Whenever any one introduced in his presence a discourse in dispraise of a man's character, either directly, or indirectly, he had too much good manners to stop him, or to reprimand him, but would adroitly turn the discourse to some other object, without affording the speaker any subject of offence.