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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
Author: Barbara Walters

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I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
Author: Benjamin Franklin

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Author: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, July 1735

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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Author: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926

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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
Author: Chinese Proverb

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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Author: Dolley Madison

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Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Author: Douglas Adams

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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

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To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl’s faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends.
Author: Edwin Lillie Miller, 1938, Explorations in Literature, about Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Sam)

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Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.
Author: Erica Jong

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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Author: F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

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A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Author: John Tudor

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Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Author: Liz Smith

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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Author: Ouida

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Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Author: Shana Alexander

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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Author: Winston Churchill

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(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.

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A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.


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