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“The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation”
John Adams
“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”
Susan B. Anthony
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.”
Jane Pauley
“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”
Mencius
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence”
Charles Austin Beard
“A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women”
Elbert Hubbard
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Isaac Asimov
“We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap”
Mignon McLaughlin
