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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
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.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
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.]
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant read more
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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.
