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Hesiod

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

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

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

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"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."

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

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

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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."

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Donna Grant

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

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

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