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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
 Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without 
merit and lost without deserving.  
 Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without 
merit and lost without deserving. 
 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.] 
 Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on 
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of read more 
 Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on 
suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the 
voters. 
 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.