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I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

—Madonna, c. 1985

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

—Pericles, c. 450 BC

How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”

—Persius, c. 60

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

—Erasmus, 1515

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

—Voltaire, 1723

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, c. 1790
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