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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.]
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.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
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.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
