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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no move

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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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Theres a blush for won t, and a blush for shant, and a blush for having done it: Theres a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. – John Keats

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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali

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