"We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable."
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"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given."
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"Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well."
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"Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life."
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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'."
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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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"After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity."
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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."
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"Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality."
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"I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it."
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"The man who lies asleep will never waken fame."
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"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."
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"By worrying as little as possible about fame."
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"I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either."
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"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense"
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"Fame is nothing but an empty name."
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"Jerome Bettis should be in the Hall of Fame"
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"I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me."
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"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."
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