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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. - W. H

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. – W. H. Auden

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. – Chinese Proverb

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. – Vicki Baum

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