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«Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!»
Author: Davy Crockett
(Explorer, Politician)
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Fame
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greased, greases, greasing, pig, shaved, slipped
«Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.»
«Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Fame
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drowns, swollen, weightier, weighty
«Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Fame
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coarsely, finely, hurrah, hurrahs
«Fame is rot; daughters are the thing»
«Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.»
«Fame is proof that people are gullible»
«Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds»
«Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
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Fame
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echo, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds
«Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.»
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