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Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.