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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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 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.
