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    Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
    fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something
    to what he has heard.
    [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti
    Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]

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What some invent the rest enlarge.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: Rumor Quotes,
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Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?

by Vanna Bonta Found in: Rumor Quotes,
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Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions.
[Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.]

Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions.
[Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.]

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And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers read more

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.

by Bible Found in: Gossip Quotes, Rumor Quotes,
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Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Rumor Quotes,
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Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
[Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est read more

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
[Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]

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There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.

There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.

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I will be gone,
That pitiful rumor may report my flight
To consolate thine ear.

I will be gone,
That pitiful rumor may report my flight
To consolate thine ear.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Rumor Quotes,
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What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys read more

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on

by William Morris Found in: Rumor Quotes,
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