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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than read more
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll read more
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like
Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like