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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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"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
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"Integrity, once tarnished, or broken, is hard to recover."
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"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."
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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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"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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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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"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
"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."
Acquisition
"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."
Certainty
"From the end spring new beginnings."
Beginning
"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
"Home is where the heart is."
Home
"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
"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."
Man
"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
Folly
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