And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.

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.

Scandal is the press agent of old age

Scandal is the press agent of old age

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

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

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in their
uniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.
*
(the read more

In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in their
uniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.
*
(the same thing is being done to the Shiites and Sunnis
by mosque bombers.. with the US military or Sharon
operatives tagged as Sunnis for Shiites and Shiites for
Sunnis).

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
lose a good name to him, before read more

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.

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 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.