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Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. -
Proverb
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A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse. -
American Proverb
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Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. -
Liz Smith
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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. -
Rebecca West
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people. -
Barbara Walters
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Rumor grows as it goes. -
Virgil
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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. -
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -
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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind. -
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An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation. -
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. -
Publilius Syrus
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. -
Oscar Wilde
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Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet. -
The Talmud
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. -
George Bernard Shaw
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