Joseph Addison's Quote - There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. – Jos

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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. - Jos

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. – Joseph Addison

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Life is a warfare and a strangers sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. – Marcus Aurelius

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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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