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A generous confession disarms slander.
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Thomas Fuller

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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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Ambrose Bierce

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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
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William Shakespeare

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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
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William Hazlitt

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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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Samuel Johnson

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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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George Bancroft

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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
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Mary Stewart

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Plato

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Slander expires at a good woman's door.
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Danish Proverb

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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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St. Bernard

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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
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Socrates

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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Edgar Allan Poe

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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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Oscar Wilde

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