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

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Poison, Charity

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• Slander is the solace of malignity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Solace

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Destiny

  Tropic of Cancer ch. 1 (1934)

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• The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Men, May

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Hypocrisy, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

  Joseph Hall

  Ears, Mouths, Ifs

  Joseph Hall, John Webster Morris (1867). “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author”, p.380

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• If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Funny, Witty, Nice

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• There is no protection against slander.

  Moliere

  Protection

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• Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

  Joseph Addison

  Water, Mind, Invisible

  The Spectator no. 476, 5 Sept. 1712

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• You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Belief, Human Nature, Paint

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.355, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

  William Shakespeare

  Possession, Succession

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors”, p.424

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Society, Trying, Republic

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• Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

  Isaac Barrow

  Wickedness, Complication

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• Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

  Washington Gladden

  Lying, Special, Flattery

  Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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• So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

  Laurence Sterne

  Cutting, Weapons, Scandal

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.241

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• The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Dream

  Obama’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ignorance, History, Literature

  Letter to George Sand, September 8, 1871.

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• A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

  Herodotus

  Believe, Men, Calumny Is

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• Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Tongue, Should

  "Pseudolus". I. 5. 12,

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• A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

  Josh Billings

  Blow, Firsts, Hornets

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• Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred the Great

  New Year, War, Pride

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Perseverance, Prayer, Mind

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• Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

  Washington Irving

  Space, Evil, May

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

  Confucius

  Water, Mind, Offensive

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