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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fa

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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. – W. H. Auden

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

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – 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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