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

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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. – Edward W. Howe

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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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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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Money is a kind of poetry. – Wallace Stevens

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All music is folk music. I aint never heard a horse sing a song. – Louis Armstrong

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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. – Edgard Varese

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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. – Pablo Picasso

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