"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

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"How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear."

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"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

Mary Stewart, English Novelist

Gossip, Calumny, Whisper

"You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us...."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Gossip, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Gossip, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things."

Lawrence G. Lovasik, American Clergyman

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"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."

Patricia Meyer Spacks, American Writer

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"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip."

John Patrick Hickey, American Author

Gossip, Behavior, Language, Addiction

"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Gossip, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Gossip, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

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"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

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"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."

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"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

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"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace."

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"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."

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"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

"Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us...."

"Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people."

"It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things."

"Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic."

"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

"Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip."

"We call talking about other people's personal lives 'gossip' only if we aren't or weren't part of the conversation."

"The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them."

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"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

"Never make a companion equal to a brother."

"Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race."

"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus."

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."

"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace."

"It will not always be summer; build barns."

"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."