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

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

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.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

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 dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

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

Scandal is the press agent of old age

Scandal is the press agent of old age

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.