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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where read more
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
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.
 For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
 [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem 
Rufe.]  
 For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
 [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem 
Rufe.] 
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
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!
 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.] 
 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. 
 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.]