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Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
-Chinese Proverb
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Sight before hearsay.
-Danish proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
-Proverb
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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.
-Proverb
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
-James Truslow Adams
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Gossip is nature's telephone.
-Sholom Aleichem
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
-Francis Bacon
Of Discourse
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The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
-Myrtle Barker
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Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
-Pierre De Beaumarchais
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...
-Sarah Bernhardt
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With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
-Bible
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Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
-Bible
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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
-Ambrose Bierce
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
-Sir Thomas Browne
Christian Morals, 1716
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
-William Congreve
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
-Joseph Conrad
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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
-George W. Crane
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The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
-Elizabeth Drew
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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
-Andrea Dworkin
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Books about Gossip
