“If we delight in gossip, and are not content unless each neighbor is laid upon the dissecting table, we form a character unenviable indeed, and must be willing to bear the contempt of all the truly good, while we roll our bit of scandal as a sweet morsel under the tongue.”

— William Jennings Bryan

Address at Illinois College (1881)

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United States Secretary of State 1860–1925

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