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    Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

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Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too read more

Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure
Of those physicians that first wounded thee.

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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.

by Mencius Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

by Socrates Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!

Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!

by Henry Rink Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

by Mae West Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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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.

by Douglas Jerrold Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.

It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.

by Richard Bentley Found in: Reputation Quotes,
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