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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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"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."
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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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"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
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"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."
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"For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue,' a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana, and by extension Barrayar, 'acquiring a reputation as a slick and dangerous man, who would kill without compunction to obtain and protect his own, is not all bad. In fact, you might even find it useful.''Useful! Have you found the name of the Butcher of Komarr a handy prop, then, sir?' Miles said indignantly.His father's eyes narrowed, partly in grim amusement, partly in appreciation. 'I've found it a mixed . . . damnation."
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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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"Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us."
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"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
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"Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars."
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"Every artist takes their final work to the grave."
Legacy

"Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is)."
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"Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents."
Family

"A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world."
Love

"Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words."
Intelligence

"In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist."
Equality

"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
Money

"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."
Work

"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."
Psychology

"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."
Society
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