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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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"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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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
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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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"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
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"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
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"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
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"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
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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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"I am better than my reputation."
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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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"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"
Philosophy

"Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
Wisdom

"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."
Satire

"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
Nature

"Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom."
Philosophy

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
Religious

"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
Ethics

"You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!"
Emotion

"It is so easy to convince others, it is so difficult to convince oneself."
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