Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

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

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

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
lose a good name to him, before read more

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.

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.

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.]

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.