"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" - JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice

"A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run." - OUIDA, Wisdom, Wit and Pathos

"Rumor is not always wrong." - TACITUS, Life of Agricola

"Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly.
She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion.
Small at first andin fear, she soon rises to heaven,
Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds."
- VIRGIL, Aeneid