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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!
 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. 
 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. 
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
 My dear dear lord,
 The purest treasure mortal times afford
  Is spotless reputation. That away,
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 My dear dear lord,
 The purest treasure mortal times afford
  Is spotless reputation. That away,
   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay. 
 I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the 
popular breath may chance to raise him.
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 I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the 
popular breath may chance to raise him.
 [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt
  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.] 
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.
 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. 
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.