Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

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

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.]

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.

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.

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.