Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
[Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil
facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]

Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
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Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out,
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said she's goodly, come between
Ere you can say she's honest.

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as read more

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more

No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]