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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame

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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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. – William Blake

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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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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. – Sir Thomas Browne

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

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