The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

Dante Alighieri
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The wish to hear such baseness is degrading. "I never have any more respect for people who talk behind someone's back, or who gossip about someone or something, but I don't find it a particularly admirable trait. If you have a friend, and they do something bad to you, I would expect you to tell them about it. But what I do not expect is for you to go around talking about them behind their back." - Oprah Winfrey

Source: Inferno

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