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    Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
    at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

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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.

by William Hazlitt Found in: Fame Quotes,
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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Found in: Fame Quotes,
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a
probability of such: it is an read more

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.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Fame Quotes,
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Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Fame Quotes,
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Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.

Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Fame Quotes,
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Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Fame Quotes,
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

by George Santayana Found in: Fame Quotes,
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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