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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

- Lord Byron

To many fame comes too late.

- Luis de Camoens

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

- Benjamin Franklin

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

- Anonymous

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

- Socrates

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

- Charles Sumner

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

- Voltaire

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

- Zimmermann