SCANDAL

"Yes, it cost me ten thousand dollars to have my family-tree looked up, and five thousand dollars more to have it hushed up."—Life.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.—Sheridan.

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;

Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,

A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.

—Pope.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.—Molière.