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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."
"And it's great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesn't end. Oh, and 'selfies'! If I could clap my hands and burn out every camera phone in the world, I swear I'd do it!"
"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."
"Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name."
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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
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