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"Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong."
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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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"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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"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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"When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame."
Aspiration

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
Society

"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
Society

"Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese."
Dreams

"Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing."
Art

"You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?"
Creativity

"But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world."
Nature

"Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones."
Reflection

"I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life."
Love

"Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond."
Love
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