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Quote by Mignon McLaughlin
We would all like a reputation for generosity and wed all like to

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

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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! – Henry Rink

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A good name is better than precious ointment. Ecclesiastes 7:1 – Bible

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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