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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.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, read more
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of
me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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.
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!
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.