Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ in Cymbeline

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Unkindness strikes a deeper wound than steel.

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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!

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The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.

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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
~ in Othello, Act II, scene iii

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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
~ in Othello, Act III, scene iii

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If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
~ in The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

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

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The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation.

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