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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Fame
Doris Lessing

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Fame
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Fame
Marcus Valerius Martial

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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Fame
Marcus Valerius Martial

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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Fame
John Milton

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Fame
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Fame
Blaise Pascal

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Fame
Alexander Pope

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
Fame
Ezra Pound

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Fame is a constant effort
Fame
Jules Renard

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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Reason
Little Richard

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Fame
Antoine Rivarol

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Fame
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Fame
George Santayana

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Fame
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Fame
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Greed
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
Fame
William Shakespeare

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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Quotations
Alexander Smith

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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Fame
Socrates

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Fame
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Men and Women
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Fame
Henry David Thoreau

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Fame
Gloria Vanderbilt

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