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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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.] 
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.
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
 O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of 
myself, and what remains is bestial. read more 
 O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of 
myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my 
reputation! 
 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best 
teach it to dance.  
 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best 
teach it to dance. 
 In various talk th' instructive hours they past,
 Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
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 In various talk th' instructive hours they past,
 Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;
  One speaks the glory of the British queen,
   And one describes a charming Indian screen;
    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
     At every word a reputation dies. 
 I have offended reputation,
 A most unnoble swerving.  
 I have offended reputation,
 A most unnoble swerving.