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    To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
    lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

by James Fenimore Cooper Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Scandal is the press agent of old age

Scandal is the press agent of old age

by Peter Utley Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
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Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart.

by William Cowper Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.

by Anon. Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

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He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.

He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.

by Edward Young Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend read more

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.

by Paul Chatfield Found in: Scandal Quotes,
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]

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