Quote by Lord Jeffrey
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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His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity. – John B. Gough

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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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