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They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Persius, c. 60

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 110

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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