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“I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.”

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Author:Aubrey O'Day

“Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.”

Honesty Fame Safety Warrants

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.”

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Author:Owen Feltham

“Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.”

People Knows I Can Real Honesty Like You Fame Terrified Real You

Author:Charlie Cox

“Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.”

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Author:David Mallet

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

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Book:Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.”

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Book:My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

Source: My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

“The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.”

Doe Character Truth Success Wealth Greater Honesty Fame Manhood

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.”