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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
-Chinese Proverb
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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
-Proverb
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
-Joseph Addison
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It's too bad I'm 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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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
-Alexander The Great
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
-Fred A. Allen
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
-W. H. Auden
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
-Marcus Aurelius
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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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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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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
-Vicki Baum
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
-Alan Bennett
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
-William Blake
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
-William Blake
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You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
-Humphrey Bogart
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
-John Bright
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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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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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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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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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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
-Edmund Burke
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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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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Books about Fame
