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“What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”
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- Source:
- To the Royal Academicians.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ddfea75fa6b2a1e1aae0e624344386a558f9f3e0ae9c93123746136e25095708
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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