"Gossip is the Devil's radio."
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"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue."
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"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip."
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"The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely."
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"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
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"Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool."
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"If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you."
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"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."
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"Historians are gossips who tease the dead"
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"When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women."
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"To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation."
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"People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going."
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"If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all."
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"Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair."
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"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news."
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"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light."
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"I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now."
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"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."
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