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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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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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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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