"Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best."

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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

— Walter Savage Landor