I will not deny but that the best apology against false acc… - John Milton

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

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