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Quote by Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily prese

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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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. – Francis Bacon

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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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Its too bad Im not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda

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

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame –to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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