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"And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die."
Stephen Harvey / Juvenal, Satire ix.
Juvenal, Satire ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain