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"Most people are other people, their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation" ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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:: 10 Quotes of the Moment

	Acquaintance lessens fame. ~ Claudius - [Fame]
	After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ~ Cato The Elder - [Fame]
	Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort - [Fame]
	Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. ~ Truman Capote - [Fame]
	Fame is the thirst of youth. ~ Lord Byron - [Fame]
	Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. ~ Thomas Carlyle - [Fame]
	Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ~ Lord Byron - [Fame]
	Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ~ Marcus T. Cicero - [Fame]
	Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - [Fame]
	I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ~ Lord Byron - [Fame]

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