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Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
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.
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.
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.]
