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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I mind conscious of its own rectitude fears not what is said of it, but will bid defiance to and despise shafts that are not barbed with accusations against honor or integrity.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Gouverneur Morris, Jan. 28, 1792
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Nov. 28, 1796
Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.
HERBERT SPENCER, First Principles
Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others, destroy themselves like the serpents in ant-hills.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to De Witt Clinton, Dec. 31, 1803
A gossiper is the devil's postman.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
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