Bandy no speech with a bad man:
\nOften the better is beaten
\nIn a word fight by the worse.
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You know the most-quoted verse from H\u00e1vam\u00e1l: Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal: But the good name never dies Of one who has done well . . . there is a lot more, of course. 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