"no one ever gossips about the virtues of others"
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"I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip."
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"Foul whisp'rings are abroad."
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"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
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"Gossip is easy, politics is hard."
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"For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern."
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"Nobody likes the bringer of bad news."
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"History is merely gossip"
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"Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance."
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"For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go."
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"Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true."
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"How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit."
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"History: gossip well told."
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"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory."
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"I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made."
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"Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now."
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"All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?"
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"She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?"
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"I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second."
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"We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties."
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