Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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Anna Godbersen
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
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L.m. Montgomery
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
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Ami McKay
And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
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Kathleen ODell
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He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that...
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Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.
