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Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON, Memoirs and Essays
A man can get a reputation from very small things.
SOPHOCLES, Inachus [fragment]
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello
At ev’ry word a reputation dies.
ALEXANDER POPE, The Rape of the Lock
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Lincoln's Own Stories
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, Incredible Quotations
Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone With the Wind
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