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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.
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 reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when read more
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
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.
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.
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
