A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold." (Proverbs 22:1)
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