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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Francis Bacon Former Lord Chancellor

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Horace Poet

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Mahatma Gandhi Civil Rights Leader

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero Philosopher

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Maria W. Stewart Journalist

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