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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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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – 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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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. – Alexander The Great

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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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