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"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."
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"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."
"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break."
"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"
"Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin."
"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked."
"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!"
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
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"Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written."
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives."
"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."
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