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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Calumny

A probable story is the first weapon of calumny.

Backwounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes.Shakespeare.

Be thou as chaste as ice and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.Shakespeare.

Calumniate strongly and some of it will stick.Latin.

Calumny and conjecture may injure innocence itself.

Calumny will soil virtue itself.Shakespeare.

It is better to play the role of an assassin than that of calumniator; the assassin inflicts death but once, the other a thousand times.Chinese.

Neglected calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt and you give it the appearance of truth.Tacitus.

Nothing in its progress is so rapid as calumny, nothing more widely spread, nor more readily received.Cicero.

Taught by calumny I pity the unfortunate.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.French.

We cannot control the tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise calumnies.Cato.