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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.
I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
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.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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!
It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.
It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
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.
