"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."

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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."

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"You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending."

Julia Quinn, American Novelist

Reputation, Respect, End, Perception

"The company you keep determines how others view you. Identify with mediocrity and you will be labeled sub par. Collaborate with questionable people and your reputation becomes suspect. Guilt by association can end a career, hurt your business and cost you friends. Choose alliances wisely or you may be condemned for someone else's sins."

Carlos Wallace, American Author

Reputation, Choice, Integrity, Consequence

"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

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"Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."

Peter Benchley, American Author

Reputation, Tides

"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Reputation, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

Reputation, Boundaries, Career, Self, Power

"Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Reputation, Conscience, Society, Sin, Judgment

"Speaking of your eyeballs, dear brother,I overheard some girls talking about you in the restroom at the tournament hotel. Apparently rumor now has it that you won't allow anyone to see your eyes-ever. In fact, according to this knowledgeable source, you even sleep and shower with your glasses on in case someone unexpectedly walks in...one of them said she'd seen your eyes for herself two years ago and could only describe them as 'ferocious and roving,' and 'burning white-hot with a primal, raw wildness."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Reputation, Myth, Observation, Identity

"A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Reputation, Friends, Social, Trust

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"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."

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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."

Folly

"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."

Wealth

"Truth comes out in wine."

Truth

"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."

Nature

"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Certainty

"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."

Fear

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

Darkness

"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."

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