 | "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
- Bertrand Russell
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| "There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us."
- Edward Wallis Hoch
, Marion (Kansas) Record. |
| "A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way."
- John Tudor
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| "Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
- Oscar Wilde
, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III. |
| Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
-
Spanish Proverb. |
| "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers
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| "Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."
- Will Rogers
, 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924. |