“We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook
Tag: reputation
Quote of the Day
“Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
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“Actions are judged by reputations and not the other way about.” — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
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“It would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.” — Rex Stout
“It would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.” — Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance
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“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” — Susan B. Anthony, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony
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“No man ever yet increased hiz reputashun bi contradikting lies.” — Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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“I make this distinkshun between charakter and reputashun—reputashun iz what the world thinks ov us, charakter iz what the world knows ov us.” — Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings
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