"No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather."
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"As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted."
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"The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal."
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"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."
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"Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down."
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"Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame."
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"Love is a scandal of the personal sort."
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"Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed."
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"Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read."
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"Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes."
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"It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life."
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"It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up."
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"My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
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"The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all."
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"The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal."
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"(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe."
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"What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now."
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"To most women art is a form of scandal."
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"When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen."
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"The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!"
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