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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the w

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. – Robert South

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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. – Robert South

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Religion
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Robert South
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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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Imagination
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The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. – Robert South

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For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. – Michelle Pfeiffer

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Im officially near-famous. If youve got four year old kids and youve got cable, then youve got no choice but to know who I am. But if youre one of my peers – a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan – you have no idea who I am. Im only famous if youre four. – Steve Burns

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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. – Leigh Hunt

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My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater. – Shirley Knight

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