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Boccaccio

Le cose mal fatte e di gran tempo passate son
più agevoli a riprendere che ad emendare.

Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (c. 1350), “Second Day,” Fifth Story (tr. G. H. McWilliam).

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