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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36507/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/48/Joseph_Addison">Addison, Joseph</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36508/view">In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/432/George_Bancroft">Bancroft, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36509/view">Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/691/St._Bernard">Bernard, St.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36510/view">Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/729/Ambrose_Bierce">Bierce, Ambrose</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36511/view">I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2619/Benjamin_Franklin">Franklin, Benjamin</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A generous confession disarms slander. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36512/view">A generous confession disarms slander..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2677/Thomas_Fuller">Fuller, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36513/view">Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3309/William_Hazlitt">Hazlitt, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36514/view">A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3390/Herodotus">Herodotus</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36515/view">If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3852/Samuel_Johnson">Johnson, Samuel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36516/view">You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5070/Fritz_Mondale">Mondale, Fritz</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36517/view">Let nobody speak mischief of anybody..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5742/Plato">Plato</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36518/view">Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5746/Titus_Maccius_Plautus">Plautus, Titus Maccius</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36519/view">To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5759/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Poe, Edgar Allan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Slander expires at a good woman's door. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36520/view">Slander expires at a good woman's door..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5868/Danish_Proverb">Proverb, Danish</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36521/view">Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6633/William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36522/view">Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6834/Socrates">Socrates</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36523/view">I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6968/Adlai_E._Stevenson">Stevenson, Adlai E.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36524/view">It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6973/Mary_Stewart">Stewart, Mary</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36525/view">The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7307/Leon_Trotsky">Trotsky, Leon</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36526/view">It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7349/Mark_Twain">Twain, Mark</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36527/view">What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/36528/view">If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7759/A._N._Wilson">Wilson, A. N.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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