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

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Fame is the thirst of youth. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories. – Heywood Hale Broun

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