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Your search for "
gossip
" returned 2 results from 2 Founders.
Thomas Jefferson:
"He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
source: To John Adams, August 27, 1786
modesty
,
gossip
,
hearsay
,
happiness
William Penn:
"Believe nothing against another, but upon good authority: nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to others to conceal it."
source: Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693.
envy
,
malace
,
gossip
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