Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinize the evidence closely.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, by Bertrand Russell
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