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    Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report
    of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by
    its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small
    at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps
    onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A
    huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for
    every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue.
    Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open.
    [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes:
    Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;
    Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;
    Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,
    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.
    . . . .
    Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae
    Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,
    Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]

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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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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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Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of
fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something read more

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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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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Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
[Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
[Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]

by Syrus (publilius Syrus) Found in: Rumor Quotes,
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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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The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small
town.
[Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.]

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small
town.
[Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.]

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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me read more

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

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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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