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Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal: 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.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
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.
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.
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.]
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.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
