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Alexandre Dumas: The way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it…

The way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.

In today’s wordsThe way to stop slander is to treat it with contempt; chase after it to refute it, and it will outrun you.

Alexandre DumasCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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