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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant read more
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend read more
She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
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And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
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.
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
