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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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I awoke one morning and found myself famous. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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

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