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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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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences. – Benjamin Franklin

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They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. – Benjamin Franklin

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. – Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. – Dwight L. Moody

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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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Id like people to think of me as someone who cares about them. – Princess of Wales Diana

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