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GOVERNMENT > statesman > Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
One's reputation is...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
One's reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, (Feb 13 1754-1838), French statesman; He was minister of Foreign Affairs, 1797-99; opposed Lousiana Purchase, 1803.