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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind. – John Bright

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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. – Proverb

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