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Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is read more
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid read more
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis
est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
To be pointed out with the finger.
To be pointed out with the finger.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the
reputation I bear.
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The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the
reputation I bear.
[Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich
Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
