What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

What some invent, the rest enlarge.

What some invent, the rest enlarge.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
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But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unreasonable.

I heard the little bird say so.

I heard the little bird say so.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing read more

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
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And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not.

Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.

Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.