“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.”
“One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say”
Voltaire
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody”
Benjamin Franklin
“Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense”
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