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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and read more
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would read more
(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
