Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
Mark TwainFrankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.
Mark Twain