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"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
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"I am better than my reputation."
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"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
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"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."
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"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
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"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
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"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."
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"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."
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"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
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"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
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"Like it or not, your life-what works well and what doesn't-is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way."
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"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Wisdom
"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
Leadership
"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
Wisdom
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Freedom
"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
Patriotism
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
Happiness
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
Media
"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice."
Justice
"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
Philosophy
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
Wisdom
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