"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

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"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

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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."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"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."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."

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"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

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"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."

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"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."

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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."

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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

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"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."

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"Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes."

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"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."

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"All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own."

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