Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

  • -- Charles De Talleyrand Perigord 查尔斯·德塔雷兰德·佩里戈尔

一个人的名誉就像一个影子,它在你之前是巨大的,在它之后是渺小的。

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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

我的名声有点被夸大了。报纸上写的东西,然后复制,然后翻倍。我从未否认这一点的原因之一,是因为我觉得这很有趣。但为了获得更多的私人生活,我也为自己构建了这样一个形象。

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

我有很多话要说,为什么我的名誉应该从堆积在它上面的诬蔑和诬蔑中拯救出来。

Face to face, each classic case. We shadow box and double cross. Yet need the chase.

面对面,每一个经典案例。我们的影子框和双交叉。但需要追逐。