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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. – Samuel Johnson

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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. – Pliny The Elder

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, youll do things differently. – Warren Buffett

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