BACKBITERS are biters behind your back, or would be without their vocation; to meet you face to face would be to lose their character; like small dogs worrying your heels, they cannot bear a firm look. “The north wind driveth away rain, so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.”
There is a double advantage in this simple remedy, for it not only ends the backbiter, but cures the backbitten. Go to the slanderer, look at him, tell him what he has done, and his poison will no longer rankle in your wounded spirit.