Quote#Kindness
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy…
Quote byAnna Brownell Jameson · 1794–1860
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs and Essays (1846), "Washington Allston".
English (original)
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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