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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

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. – Benjamin Franklin

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Life
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Benjamin Franklin
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. – Benjamin Franklin

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good
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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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Reputation

The average persons ear weighs what you are, not what you were. – Francis Quarles

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Reputation

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

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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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War is a defeat for humanity. – Pope John Paul II

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It begins and ends with money. Its absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. Its obscene. – Kathleen Turner

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