Quote by Josh Billings
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. - Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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History is made in the class struggle and not in bed. – Alex Mitchell

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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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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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