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 | "A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world
will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was." | |
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Bishop Joseph Hall
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| "How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own
reputation!" | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a
reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up
a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth." | |
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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| "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot
to the town gossip." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which
carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but
increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God
and angels know of us." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that
away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a
ten-times-barr?d-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour
is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is
done." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The two most precious things this side of the grave are our
reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most
contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of
the other. A wise man, therefore, will be more anxious to deserve a fair
name than to possess it, and this will teach him so to live as not to be
afraid to die." | |
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Nathaniel Cotton
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| "Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it
was or what freedom really is." | |
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Margaret Mitchell
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| "You can"t build a reputation on what you are going to do." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "Your name is mud." | |
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