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

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

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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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Youre not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. – Humphrey Bogart

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