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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. - Bible, Ephesians (ch. IV, v. 31-32) Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 31) To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. - William Congreve, Love for Love (act I, sc. 2), "losing Loadum" is an old game which one plays to lose tricks Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart. - William Cowper, Hope (l. 570) No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. - Saint Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius, called Hieronymus) And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation) And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation) The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (IV, 311) Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. - Benjamin Rush The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. - William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,004) Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. - Edward Young, Epistles to Pope (ep. I, l. 199)
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