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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. (Kurt Cobain)[][]
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. (Henry David Thoreau)[][]
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. (Leszczynski Stanislaus)[][]
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. (William Shakespeare)[][]
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. (Joaquin Miller)[][]
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. (H.L. Mencken)[][]
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. (Martial)[][]
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)[][]
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. (William Hazlitt)[][]
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. (Hare and Charles)[][]
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog! (Emily Dickinson)[][]
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. (Sebastian Chamfort)[][]
O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. (Lord Byron)[][]
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. (Buddha)[][]
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. (Christian Nestell Bovee)[][]
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