It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong
We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
You cannot believe everything you hear