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

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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

Fame is the echo of actions, resouding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of the cigarette packet.