Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
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.
Fame is an interesting phenomenon.
Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.
Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
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