The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sancti
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Navajo men and boys have an odd way of showing their friendship. When two young men meet at the trading post, a "Sing", or a dance
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He hadn't known me fifteen minutes, and yet he was ... ready to talk ... I was still to learn that Munshin, like many people from
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When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to l
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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!
Know Celia, (since thou art so proud),
'Twas I that gave thee thy renowne: ...
'Twas I that gave thee thy renowne: ...
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way
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Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. They did not know it
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two
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