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Reputation
«I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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Reputation
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posterity, transmit, transmits, transmitting
«It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.»
Author: Warren Buffett
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Reputation
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build, differently, five, minutes, reputation, ruin, ruining, takes, think about, years
«It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Reputation
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deeds, lose it, one to
«It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public»
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Reputation
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difficult, faithful, Mar, properly, public, reputation, seriously
«It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Conscience,
Integrity,
Reputation
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cope, cope with
«It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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Reputation
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especially, most especially, obvious, pays, reputation, subtleties, subtlety
«I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
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Reputation
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girl, missed, myself, reputation, story, The Story, wrote
«I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Hope,
Reputation
| Keywords:
liar, truthfully, veracity
«It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge themselves afterwards in disbelieving him at pleasure»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Reputation
| Keywords:
disbelieving, indulge, monitor, monitoring, monitors, partialities, partiality, untainted