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Some people fear gaining fame the way pigs fear gaining weight.
You may persevere in obscurity for ten years in your study, but the day you make a name for yourself, the whole world will acclaim ...
As great trees attract the winds, so great fame attracts envy.
Knowing someone by reputation is not as good as meeting him face to face.
Rafter ends that jut out from under the roof will rot first.
We must bear in mind the distinction between fame and honor. A virtuous person is an honorable person, a person who ought to be ho ...
There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memori ...
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
She believed that she must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of know ing our own nothingness beyond our own circl ...
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