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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
3.9 · 53 votes · 88 reads
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century
4.1 · 36 votes · 144 reads
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.9 · 62 votes · 177 reads
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
4.5 · 42 votes · 35 reads
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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
John Keats
PoetBritish1795 · 18th century
3.1 · 16 votes · 95 reads
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.1 · 54 votes · 20 reads
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante
PoetItaly1265 · 13th century
3.7 · 19 votes · 29 reads
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You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?
Hillary Clinton
PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century
4.0 · 45 votes · 90 reads
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