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14 CHEAP TALK People love to talk, about nothing, Idle gossip in the main, it amazes me. If only they told the truth! People love to talk; Nothing important—others. They craft tales of destruction, Slandering portrait after portrait; The rewards I know not, Yet unhealthy the effects on tellers, On the slandered multiplied even as the truth Belatedly will always out. If only people will learn their tongues to purse, Else let it be songs of praise, Of encouragement, and words of gratitude So humankind may flourish and God be praised. Alas, people love to talk more about others, Hacking at personalities searingly, Lavishing verbal blows at absent But dwarfing portraits of integrity. ...

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