Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! facts

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

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