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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.