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Charles de Gaulle

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

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John Churton Collins

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

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Dean William R. Inge

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

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Michel de Montaigne

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

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Emily Dickinson

Fame is a bee It has a song – It has a sting – Ah too it has a wing.

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Daniel J. Boorstin

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

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Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

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Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

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