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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, an

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

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Pessimists—Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust. – Paul Chatfield

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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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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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