“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

—  Margaret Mitchell, book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Variant: Until you 've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Source: Gone with the Wind

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American author and journalist 1900–1949

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