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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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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. – Alexander The Great

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

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame –to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

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