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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
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Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,
Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
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.
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.
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.]
Scandal is the press agent of old age
Scandal is the press agent of old age
