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Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A coward talks to everyone but YOU.Shannon L. Alder
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Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.Israelmore Ayivor
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Rumours should be juicy and gossips must be mouth-watering, since they have to uplift and make people feel better. Tittle-tattle can have a swift ripple effect and when the ball is rolling very fast, it kick-starts a flood of moral destruction. “Schadenfreude” can, then, be fully enjoyed. (“Juicy rumours”)Erik Pevernagie
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To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.Israelmore Ayivor
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Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Be worried if you always flock in the company of people who peel off other people's skins with their teeth in their absence. A time will come when they'll try to pick a bite on you too!Israelmore Ayivor
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Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.Israelmore Ayivor
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Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.Israelmore Ayivor
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Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.Israelmore Ayivor
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Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, "SALIGIA" Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go you have given them, they will resurface again and again at the doors of your home to impede your happiness. Let truth and goodness always prevail but never be again a doormat of their abusive, evil ways.Angelica Hopes
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And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.Alexander Pope
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Biography is higher gossip.Robert Winder
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Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.Thomas Fuller
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".Leonard Woolf
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.Bertrand Russell
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.Earl Wilson
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Gossip needs no carriage.Russian Proverb
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Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.Ogden Nash
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Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.Saki
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No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.Hesiod
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.Kin Hubbard
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The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.John Hay
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If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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What some invent the rest enlarge.Jonathan Swift
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.Edgar Watson Howe
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.Spanish Proverb
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A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.Beryl Pfizer
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.Walter Wine Hell
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Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.Heron Carvic
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You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.Lewis Carroll