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FABLE --- FACE
FACTS --- FAIR --- FAITH
FAITHFULNESS --- FALL --- FALSEHOOD --- FAME

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FABLE

see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links
see "SUPERNATURAL" for related links

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confabulate (verb) [kκn-‘fζb-yu-leyt]
To chat, converse; (psychology) to fill lapses of memory with
fabrications that one believes are facts.
The process is "confabulation," the person confabulating is a
confabulator and the adjective is "confabulatory."




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FACE

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see: "SMILES"
see "THE BODY" for other related links


My face looks like a wedding-cake
left out in the rain.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
In Humphrey Carpenter _W.H. Auden_ [1981].

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight,
when one sees half with the eye and half with
the fancy.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
_Intuitions and Summaries Of Thought_ [1862]

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
With the dream of, meet death with.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"A Likeness"

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621-1651], pt. III, sec. III

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is
up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
--Coco Chanel (1883—1971)
French fashion designer.

Look in the face of the person to whom you are
speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments;
for he can command his words more easily than
his countenance.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
In Tiruvalluvar _Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar_, p. 437 [1962].

That same face of yours looks like the
title-page to a whole volume of roguery.
--Colley Cibber (1671—1757)
English actor and playwright.
In _Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_
(comp. by Adam Woolιver, p. 136 [1891].

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers
and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
In Willard Scott _The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune:
The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age_, p. 194 [2002].

As a beauty I'm not a great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my face — I don't mind it
Because I'm behind it;
It's the folks out in front that I jar.
--Anthony Euwer (1877—1955)
American author.
In Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia
Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 102 [1989]

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
_Old Familiar Faces_ [1798]

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
"Doctor Faustus" [1604]

His face was filled with broken commandments.
--John Masefield (1878—1967)
English novelist, poet, and playwright.
In Robert Andrews
_The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, P. 74 [1989].

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
Last words in his notebook [17 April 1949].

A large nose is in fact the sign of an
affable man, good, courteous, witty,
liberal, courageous, such as I am.
--Edmond Rostand (1868—1918)
French dramatist.
_Cyrano de Bergerac_ [1897]

As a rule a man's face says more of interest than
does his tongue; for it is a compendium of all that
he will ever say, since it is the monogram of all
his thoughts and aspirations. The tongue also expressed
only the thoughts of one man, but the face expresses a
thought of nature herself.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
'On Physiognomy', _Parerga and Paralipomena_ [1851]

God hath given you one face, and
you make yourselves another.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_ [1601], III, i

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physiognomy fiz-ee-OG-nuh-mee; -ON-uh-mee, noun:
1. The art of discovering temperament and other characteristic
qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially
by the features of the face.
2. The face or facial features, especially when regarded as
indicating character.
Ex.: It was an urban physiognomy different, Bourget thought,
'from every other since the foundation of the world,' an
unvarying flatland of industrial neighborhoods that rolled on --
backward from the horizon -- for miles and miles until it
climaxed in a silhouette of towers tightly wedged between
river, rail lines, and lake.
--Donald L. Miller,
_City of the Century_



FACTS

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see: "CERTAINTY"
see: "EVIDENCE"
see: "FABLE"
see: "IMAGINATION"
see: "OPINION"
see: "PERCEPTION"
see: "REALITY"
see: "STATISTICS"
see: "TRUTH"


Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the
dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
--John Adams (1735—1826)
First VP and second President of the United States.
"Argument in Defense of the [British] Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials," [December 1770].

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing,
to imagine your facts is another.
--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.
"24 October 1907"
_The Heart of Burroughs's Journals_ [1928], ed. Clara Barrus.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on
evidence. There's no better rule.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Great Expectations_ [1860-1861], Chapter 40

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

People don't ask for facts in making up their
minds. They would rather have one good,
soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
--Robert Keith Leavitt (1895?—1967?)
_Voyages and Discoveries_ [1939]

Any fact facing us is not as important as our
attitude toward it, for that determines our
success or failure.
--Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993)
American preacher and author.

I might show facts as plain as day:
But, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
"Where? What?" and turn away.
--Christina Rossetti [pseud. Ellen Alleyne] (1830—1894)
English poet.
_A Sketch_, Stanza 3

Wooden-headedness consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived,
fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according
to wish while not allowing oneself to be confused by the facts.
--Barbara Tuchman {nθe Wertheim} (1912—1989)
American historian and author.
"An Inquiry into the Persistence of Unwisdom in Government"
_Esquire_ [1980]

It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink (at)
facts because they are not to our taste.
--John Tyndall (1820—1893)
British natural philosopher.

Just the facts ma'am.
--Jack Webb (1920—1982)
American actor.
Signature line from his "Dragnet" television show.

We want the facts to fit our preconceptions.
When they don't, it is easier to ignore the
facts than to change the preconceptions.
--Jassamyn West (1902—1984)
American novelist and screenwriter.

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pragmatic (adj.) [prζg-'mζ-tik]
1. Realistic, relating to facts, causal relations, and action as
opposed to speculation, theory, or abstract principles.
2. A school of philosophy that claims that nothing without real,
observable manifestations is relevant to human thought.



FAIR

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see "CHARACTER" for related links


Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: be fair
with others, but then keep after them until they are
fair with you.
--Alan Alda (1936— )
American actor.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do you even so to them.
--Bible
New Testament, "Matthew" 7:12

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and
all the impersonators would be dead.
--Johnny Carson (1925—2005)
American comedian and host of The Tonight Show [1962—1992].

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a
living asking, "Do you want fries with that?"
--John Cleese (1939— )
British comedian and actor.

I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled
till I have a good hand.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1727 ed.]



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FAITH

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see "BELIEF" for related links
see "RELIGION" for related links


Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an
instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
--Henri Frιdιrick Amiel (1821—1881)
Swiss critic.
_Journal Intime_ [1883]

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine
is something you kill for: there is all the
difference in the world.
--Tony Benn (1925— )
British Labour politician.
In "Observer" [16 April 1989].

O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
--Bible
New Testament, "Matthew" 14:31

Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see.
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
--Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
American poet.
_Poems_ {Second Series 1891]
"Faith Is a Fine Invention"

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with
its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his
own heart and his own imagination.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
Speech [25 November 1864].

I carry my own church about under my own hat, said I.
Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_The Stark Munro Letters_ [1894]

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Learning takes us through many states of life,
but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and
temptation. Then faith alone saves.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
_Young India_ [22 January 1925]


Do not be dazzled by the splendor that comes to you
from the West. Do not be thrown off your feet by
this passing show.

The Enlightened One has told you in never-to-be-
forgotten words that this little span of life is
but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing, and if you
realize the nothingness of all that appears before
your eyes, the nothingness of this material case
that we see before us ever changing, then indeed
there are treasures for you up above, and there
is peace for you down here, peace which passeth
all understanding, and happiness to which we are
utter strangers.

It requires an amazing faith, a divine faith and
surrender of all that we see before us.

--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
In Richard Attenborough's
_The Words of Gandhi_ [1982], "Daily Life".

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never
be reached by the caravan of thinking.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.

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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are
complementaries. One who never doubts will
never truly believe.
--Hermann Hesse (1877—1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
_Reflections_ [1974], #291


I hold that it is permissible for each one of us to
die for his faith, but not to kill for his faith.
--Hermann Hesse (1877—1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
_Reflections_, 66

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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded
by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon
reason, observation, and experience merits
everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation,
and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture
of insanity and ignorance called "faith".
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic."

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple;
to have faith is harder.
--Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988)
American author of Western fiction.
_To the Far Blue Mountains_

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human
being; not if he is the best and wisest in the whole
world. There are lots of nice things you can do
with sand, but do not try building a house on it.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Mere Christianity_ [1952], Book 4, Chapter 7

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This supposed ability to sidestep, to forgo, ritual comes from a
mistaken belief in one's own powers and a misapprehension of
personal grace. It is misplaced and it is sad, like the viewer at
a magic show who confides, 'You know, he really didn't make that
duck disappear.'

Now of course the magician didn't make that duck disappear. What
he did was something of much greater worth — he gave a moment of
joy and astonishment to some who were delighted by it.

In suspending their disbelief — in suspending their reason, if you
will — for a moment, the viewers were rewarded. They committed an
act of faith, or of submission. And like those who rise refreshed
from prayers, their prayers were answered. For the purpose of the
prayer was not, finally, to bring about intercession in the material
world, but to lay down, for the time of the prayer, one's confusion
and rage and sorrow at one's own powerlessness.

--David Mamet (1947— )
American playwright and screenwriter.
_Three Uses of the Knife_ [1998]

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical
belief in the occurence of the improbable.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Prejudices_ [1922]

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of
East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it!
At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I
shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay
tenement into a house that is immortal — a body that
death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body
fashioned like unto His glorious body.
--Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
American evangelist and publisher

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings
when the dawn is still dark.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, and painter who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard,
Master Harry — every man of every nation
has done that — 'tis the living up to it that
is difficult.
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863)
English novelist.
_The History of Henry Esmond_ [1852]

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I believe in the sun, even when it doesn't shine.
I believe in love, even when I don't feel it.
I believe in God, even when He is silent.
--Inscription on the wall of a cellar in Cologne
where some Jews remained hidden for the entire
duration of World War II.

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have
it you can't understand it. And if you do, no
explanation is necessary.
--Kira Nerys
(fictional chacter in "Star Trek")

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apostasy (noun)
The renunciation of a religious or political belief or allegiance.



FAITHFULNESS

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see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links


I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
"As I Walked Out One Evening" [1940]

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable
than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the
most sacred excellences and endowments of
the human mind.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turned when he rose.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
"Believe me, if all those endearing young charms" [1807]

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
--Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552—1618)
English explorer and courtier.
"Walsinghame"



FALL
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Photograph: Autumn in Pennsylvania

see "NATURE" for related links
see "TIME" for related links


When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
One hasn't got time for a waiting game;
And the days dwindle down, to a precious few:
September... November.
And these few precious days
I'll spend with you.
These precious days, I'll spend with you.
--Maxwell Anderson (1888—1959)
American Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright.
"September Song," (music by Kurt Weill)

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest
fire, in magnitude at least; but a single tree is
like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
--Hal Borland [Harold Glen] (1900—1978)
American author.
_Sundial of the Seasons_ [1964], "Autumn in Your Hand"

They rustle, they brustle, they crackle, and if you
can crush beech nuts under foot at the same time,
so much the better. But beech nuts aren't essential.
The essential is that you should tramp through very
dry, very crisp, brown leaves — a thick drift of them
in the Autumn woods, shuffling through them, kicking
them up.
--Vita Sackville-West (1892—1962)
English writer and landscape gardener.
On BBC Radio _Personal Pleasures_ [1950].



FALSEHOODS

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see "DECEPTION" for other related links
see "HURTING SOMEONE" for other related links


Falsehoods not only disagree with truths,
but usually quarrel among themselves.
--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.

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apocryphal (adjective) [κ-'pah-krκ-fκl]
Of unknown origin hence of questionable authenticity,
spurious; non-canonical; erroneous

belie (verb) [bκ-'LI]
To show to be false, contradict, to misrepresent, to give a false
impression of.

calumny (noun)
A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander

canard [kuh-NAHRD], noun:
An unfounded, false, or fabricated report or story.
This is just a canard that is assumed to be true because it
has been repeated so often.
-- Bruce Bartlett, "Lower Taxes Higher Revenue?,"
_National Review_, [13 March 2003]

specious (adj.) ['spee-shκs]
Ostensibly true but, in fact, false, misleading;
deceptively attractive (language, gestures, and such)

spurious [SPU`RI-OUS]:
Not proceeding from the true source, or from the
source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate

tarradiddle [air-uh-DID-uhl], noun:
1. A petty falsehood; a fib.
2. Pretentious nonsense.



FAME

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see "SUCCESS" for related links


What price glory?
--Maxwell Anderson (1888—1959)
American Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright.
Title of play [1924] with Lawrence Stallings.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused.
Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come
dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models.
We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply
seem great because they are famous but who are famous
because they are great. We come closer and closer to
degrading all fame into notoriety.
--Daniel J. Boorstin (1914—2004)
American historian.
_The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America_ [1961],
ch. 2 "From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-Event"

Youth will be served, every dog has his
day, and mine has been a fine one.
--George (Henry) Borrow (1803—1881)
English traveler, linguist, and prose writer.
_Lavengro_ [1851], ch. 92

I don't care what you say about me, as long as
you say *something* about me, and as long as
you spell my name right.
--George M. Cohan (1878—1942)
American songwriter, dramatist, and producer.

On being asked by someone how he could
become famous, Diogenes responded:
'By worrying as little as possible about fame.'
--(Diogenes (404-323 B.C.)
Greek Cynic philosopher)

If you wou'd not be forgotten
As soon as you'e dead and rotten,
With write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1738]

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [1751]

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday
out of our recollection; and will, in turn, by
supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
--Washington Irving (1783—1859)
American author, essayist, and travel book writer.
_The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent_ [1819—1820] "Westminster Abbey"

Fourteen heart attacks and he had
to die in my week. In MY week.
--Janis Joplin (1943—1970)
American singer.
_New Music Express_ [12 April 1969]
(Said when ex-President Eisenhower's
death prevented her photograph from
appearing on the cover of "Newsweek.")

One of the reasons that so many people who achieve
fame and fortune don't find happiness is because,
almost by definition, if you reach that high estate
you are going to find yourself surrounded by the
lowest hangers-on in the world. It is not that you
get cut off from the real people; you just get cut
off from the good people. And pretty soon, if you
don't watch out, you can start to turn into a creep
yourself.
--Billie Jean King (1943— )
American professional tennis player.
_Billie Jean_ [1982]

The main advantage of being famous is that when
you bore people at dinner parties they think it
is their fault.
--Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923— )
German-born American diplomat.

The best fame is a writer's fame: it's enough
to get a table at a good restaurant, but not
enough that you get interrupted when you eat.
--Fran Lebowitz (1946— )
American humorist.
In "Observer" [30 May 1993].

We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first —
rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
(Evaluating The Beatles.)
--John Lennon (1940—1980)
English pop singer and songwriter.
Interview in "Evening Standard" [4 March 1966].

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Carl Reiner opines on age and fame...

I think you have to be 80 to be called
a legend. I directed George Burns in
'Oh, God' and I remember thinking of
him as a legend and he was 80. Somebody
just told me in June I have to go to UCLA
to get an Icon award, so I guess you have
to be 84 to be an icon. I'm a legend now
and in June I'll be a legend-icon hyphenate.

...When you're a legend you try not to
walk around with stains on your pants
and on your tie, an icon has to have a
slight aura. You don't see the aura but
you feel it. People say, 'Oh quiet. Here
comes an icon.'

Sometimes I realize I'm winding down.
But it's meant to be this way. You know
there are people talking about longevity,
about people living to be 100, 200, about
how there's a way to rejuvenate — and
I'm thinking, 'Who the hell would want
these people around.' I'm just imagining
people saying: 'Oy, are we going to get
that 200-year-old man in here today?
He's a bore. He's always talking about
the Civil War.'

--Carl Reiner (1922— )
American actor, film director, producer,
writer, and comedian.

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In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
thrust upon them.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Twelfth-Night_ [1601—1602], act II, sc. iii

Martyrdom. . . the only way in which a man
can become famous without ability.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Devil's Disciple_ [1901]

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes,
Desirous still, still impotent to rise.
--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.
_The Judgement of Hercules_ l. 436


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