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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not read more
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Who gossips with you will gossip of you
Who gossips with you will gossip of you
Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at read more
Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.
The way others treat you when you're there, is something to be considered.. but the way they respect you when read more
The way others treat you when you're there, is something to be considered.. but the way they respect you when you're not around is much more important.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it; it proves read more
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of
the smoker.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their read more
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
about, and that is not being talked read more
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked
about, and that is not being talked about.