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A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of read more
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the
voters.
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.
That man is thought a dangerous knave,
Or zealot plotting crime,
Who for advancement of his kind
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That man is thought a dangerous knave,
Or zealot plotting crime,
Who for advancement of his kind
Is wiser than his time.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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.
To be pointed out with the finger.
To be pointed out with the finger.