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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Slander

Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man’s good parts to light on his sores.
—Anonymous

Slander, like the pestilence, which rages at noonday, sweeps all before it, levelling without distinction the good and the bad.
—Laurence Sterne