Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish … - Francis Bacon

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Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

Francis Bacon

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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