Rumor grows as it goes.
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Sight before hearsay.
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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
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At every word a reputation dies.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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