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 | "A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they
run." | |
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Ouida
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| "A small town is a place where there is little to see or do, but what
you hear makes up for it." | |
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Ivern Ball
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| "And there"s a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our
neighbour"s shame; On eagles" wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous
actions are but born and die." | |
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Stephen Harvey
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| "But there?s another type of poison perhaps a little more insidious ?
thought poison ? commonly called "gossip." Thought poison differs from body
poison in two ways. It affects the mind, not the body, and it is more
subtle. The person being poisoned usually doesn?t know it. Thought-poison
is subtle but it accomplishes "big" things. It reduces the size of our
thinking by forcing us to concentrate on petty, unimportant things. It
warps and twists our thinking about people because it is based on a
distortion of facts, and it creates a guilt feeling in us that shows
through when we meet the person we?ve gossiped about. Thought-poison is 0
percent right thinking: it is 100 percent wrong thinking. And contrary to
lots of opinion, women have no exclusive franchise on gossip. Every day
many men, too, live in a partially poisoned environment." | |
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David. J. Schwartz, PhD
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| "Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith
is to see what we believe." | |
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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| "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh
at them in our turn?" | |
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Jane Austen
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| "Gossip is nature"s telephone." | |
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Sholom Aleichem
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| "He that sows thorns should not go barefoot." | |
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Proverb
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| "If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four
friends in the world." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the
sand near the water"s edge"" | |
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Napoleon Hill
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| "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea." | |
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Henry Fielding
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| "Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something
bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way." | |
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Antoine Rivarol
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| "People will believe anything if you whisper it." | |
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Unknown
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| "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked
about." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about
them." | |
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Will Rogers
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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; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely
necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it." | |
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Henry van Dyke
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| "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the
best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of
us." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who
edit it and read it are old women over their tea." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "To tell tales out of schoole." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters
and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement." | |
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George Bancroft
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| "We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We
thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." | |
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Stephen Vincent Benét
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| "What passes out of one?s mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a
great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well." | |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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