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"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."
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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."

"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."

"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."
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"The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body."


"One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world."


"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."


"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."
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