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“Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.”
Michael Iapoce
“It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you”
Matthew Hale
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
George Washington
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Socrates
“It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare
“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity”
Baltasar Gracian
“Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.”
Myrtle Reed
“With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized”
Oscar Wilde