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The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
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Verse 8. Tongued. Hebrew “caluminator.” He pretends to wish well to those of whom he speaks, or else to guard the company against deceit. Calmet.—“If the devil be upon the detractor’s tongue, he is in the ears of those who pay attention to him.” S. Fran. de Sales.—Fear, and so forth is in the Septuagint above. The Vulg. retains both this and the new version of S. Jerom.
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