There is no Peace to be expected, either in a Government, or in a Family
where Tale-bearers, and the Spreaders of Ill and of False News, are
Encourag’d. Now the Curiosity of Heark’ning after Privacies that do not
concern us, and of Prying into forbidden Secrets, does not arise so
much from a Desire of knowing the Truth of Things simply for our own
Satisfaction, as from an Itch of Screwing our Selves into other Peoples
Matters, that we may be Prating of them again. And then the Tale is very
seldom or never without Calumny and Detraction at the End on’t.