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Quote by Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, an

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. – Francis Bacon

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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Youre not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. – Humphrey Bogart

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In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories. – Heywood Hale Broun

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