“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.” ThinkingWould BeCompanyGreaterSubjectsConversationVarietyEngagedDiscourseConfinedAssembly Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.” GivingFirstsPersonsTwoPartySubjectsTruth IsVicesCreditEngagedInjuryIndulgeAbsentInjuredMonstrousIndulge InCalumnyCalumny Is Author:Herodotus