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“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.”

People Care Interest Sin Secret Virtue Taken Evidence Inspired Vices Gossip Consolation Neighbour Malice Untrue Verify

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

Ifs Should Spiritual Secret Tree Wind Blame Gossip Revealing Rumor Secret Love Keeping Secrets Blaming Others Kept Secrets Gossiping And Rumors

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.”

Knows Children Secret Heard Devil Yeah Radio Gossip Wireless

Author:George Harrison

“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”

Knows Death Secret Knowing Doors Listening Surface Mediums Tension Gossip Glimpse Toilets Crude Rumours Untrustworthy Membranes Reverberation

Author:China Mieville

“Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.”

People Knows Way Littles Two Secret Knowing Streets Fame Scary Likes Gossip Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:Ally Sheedy