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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Motivational, Time
1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.