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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Nickname

Names alone mock destruction; they survive the doom of all creation.

H. Trevanion.

A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man.

Anonymous.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Zimmermann.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Haliburton.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

Hesiodus.