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Fame, we may
understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability
of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
When you can
do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will
command the attention of the world.
-- George Washington Carver
1864-1943, American Scientist
After I'm dead
I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I
have one.
-- Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman,
Orator
I would much
rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have
one.
-- Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman,
Orator
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It often
happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best
known in heaven.
-- Nicolas Caussin
If you are
ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner
inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way
is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and
follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a
trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
-- Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist,
Dramatist, Poet
Celebrity is
the advantage of being known to people who we don't know,
and who don't know us.
-- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer,
Journalist, Playwright
Let us not
disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The
height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
-- Vicomte De Chateaubriand
1768-1848, French Politician,
Writer
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