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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

My reputation precedes me now.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.