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Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by o

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. – Lord Jeffrey

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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. – Lord Jeffrey

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

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For Gods sake (I never was more serious) dont make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print… substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. – Charles Lamb

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Reputation

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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He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon. – James Howell

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