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

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Its too bad Im not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. – Alan Alda

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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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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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