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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. – Benjamin Franklin

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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. – Charles Caleb Colton

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We would all like a reputation for generosity and wed all like to buy it cheap. – Mignon McLaughlin

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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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