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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused.
Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come
dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models.
We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem
great because they are famous but are famous because they
are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame
into notoriety.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian
Popular
applause veers with the wind.
-- John Bright
1811-1889, Radical British
Statesman, Orator
But the
iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals
with the memory of men without distinction to merit of
perpetuity.
-- Sir Thomas Browne
1605-1682, British Author,
Physician,, Philosopher
There is not
in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame;
life concludes before you have so much as sketched your
work.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
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