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 And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.  Biography is higher gossip. Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. Gossip needs no carriage. Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech. Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well. - Saki No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity. - Hesiod Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk. The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. - John Hay If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me. What some invent, the rest enlarge. What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. 
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