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"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."
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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."

"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."

"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself."

"It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."
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