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There are
names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
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.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
The love of
fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or
it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence,
sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
It is a mark
of many famous people that they cannot part with their
brightest hour.
-- Lillian Hellman
1905-1984, American
Playwright
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Fame usually
comes to those who are thinking about something else.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
How vain,
without the merit, is the name.
-- Homer
c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet
I'm afraid of
losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark.
Like celery.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
Once you
become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
-- Don Johnson
1949-, American Actor,
Director, Producer, Singer
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