"Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible."

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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."

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"Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens."

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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."

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"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances."

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"A generous confession disarms slander."

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"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination."

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"A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it."

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"If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written."

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"You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging."

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