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Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!
Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty read more
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of read more
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the world.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to read more
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
