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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputa

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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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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