What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little Great short quote and quotation by: Stanislaus ,
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Paul Valery , French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)
Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. Great short quote and quotation by: Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing ,
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
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