An idea from The Book of the Courtier

People judge you by your friends and by the first thing they hear about you. Someone seen with fools is taken for one. Verses passed around under a famous poet’s name won applause until the real author came out, and then they were thought poor.

From The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

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