Gossip, public, private, social to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting … - Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Gossip, public, private, social to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

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