Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
More William Shakespeare Quotes
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
C.S. Lewis
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You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
