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.]

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

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.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

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.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.