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If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. IX -
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.
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
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Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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.
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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.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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