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doesn"t know." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I"m
still doing it." | |
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Miles Davis
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| "All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it
quietly." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "Even the best things are not equal to their fame." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Everybody worships me, it"s nauseating." | |
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Sir Noµl Pierce Coward
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| "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with
truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly
wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that
are sometimes right." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty
is oblivion." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Fame is but the breath of people, And that often unwholesome." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and
drowns things weighty and solid." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Fame is proof that the people are gullible." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds." | |
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Socrates
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| "Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But
friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have
grasped an immortality." | |
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Joaquin Miller
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| "Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something
else." | |
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Oliver W. Holmes Jr.
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| "Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her
with too slavish knees." | |
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John Keats
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| "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." | |
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Simeon Strunsky
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| "For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "I"m never going to be famous. I don"t do anything, not one single
thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don"t even do that any more." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were
no winter, there would be no summer." | |
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Saint John Chrysostom
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| "If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "It is better to have men ask why you have no statue, than why you
have one." | |
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Proverb
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| "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for
writing, but I couldn"t give it up because by then I was too
famous." | |
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Robert Charles Benchley
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| "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us." | |
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The Bible
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| "Life is a warfare and a stranger"s sojourn, and after fame is
oblivion." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "Live by publicity, you"ll probably die by publicity." | |
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Russell Baker
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| "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want
is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks
down." | |
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Oprah Winfrey
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| "No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to
the gallows." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for,
if she comes at all ." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Please don?t lie to me, unless you?re absolutely sure I?ll never
find out the truth." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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| "RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame ? a
little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than
the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate
hand." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as
for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most
brilliant." | |
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Salvador Dali
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| "The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn"t been
asleep." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise
resign." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn"t been
asleep." | |
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Unknown
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| "The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more
leisure we have." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted
truth." | |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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| "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." | |
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
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| "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." | |
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Niels Bohr
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| "To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for." | |
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Alexander Smith
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| "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above
falsehood, as oil does above water." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you
yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little." | |
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Leszczynski Stanislaus
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| "What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned
than mentioned not at all!" | |
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Peter Pindar
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| "What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned
than mentioned not at all." | |
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John Wolcot
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