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“‘I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip’
‘What is the difference between scandal and gossip?’
‘Oh, gossip is charming. History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Now, I never moralize. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite. And a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a nonconformist conscience’”
— Nov 07, 2025 08:53AM
‘What is the difference between scandal and gossip?’
‘Oh, gossip is charming. History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Now, I never moralize. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite. And a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a nonconformist conscience’”
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