"throw dirt enough, and some will stick" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "This proverb dates from c1650, and was popularised by Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] in the 18th century.",
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          "text": "1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/letters/1766.htm on 14 Oct 06.\nI hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'"
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          "text": "1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,\nBut whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick."
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          "ref": "1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics, published 1994, page 10",
          "text": "Archbishop Whately used to say ‘Throw dirt enough, and some will stick;' well, will stick, but not, will stain. I think he used to mean ‘stain,' and I do not agree with him.",
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        "If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished."
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          "text": "1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/letters/1766.htm on 14 Oct 06.\nI hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'"
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          "text": "1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,\nBut whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick."
        },
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          "ref": "1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics, published 1994, page 10",
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