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Age of Enlightenment1 quote
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Classical antiquity1 quote
Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity. — Hesiod · 700 BCColonial America1 quote
Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy. — Benjamin Franklin · 1739Spanish Golden Age1 quote
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605