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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. - Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. – Moli

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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. – Milan Kundera

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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