I remember once seeing an amusing cartoon. It featured five feminine heads, all looking one way and all with their mouths open. The first head was small and the mouth proportioned to the rest of the features; the next was rather larger, with a much wider mouth; the third was larger still, and so on. This picture portrayed in a capital way what often happens in small towns when some trifling incident in passing from one mouth to another is magnified by the gossips 'till it attains the proportions of quiet an important event; and thus, a "mountain is made out of a molehill."
Other seek to excuse themselves by asserting that they were not the first to discover these failings, but mentioned them only because they had heard of them from others. And yet they imagine there is no great harm in repeating what they have heard to those who were ignorant of it.
God forbids us to talk about the faults of others. Remember the Golden Rule: "Do not do to others what you would not like if it were done to yourself." In conclusion, we will listen to those who say: "You are quite right. I am aware that I ought not to talk about my neighbor's faults, I will never grow weary of renewing the resolution not to utter one simple uncharitable word about my neighbor. And if sometimes I speak unkindly, I ust not excuse myself by saying there is no great harm in it."
** The wise man will seek his own faults to ammend;The fool to his neighbor's alone will attend.**
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