Fame
Palissy figures as one of nineteen exemplary heroes in a series written by Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga and first published in 1927 in the popular Argentine weekly Caras y Caretas.
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Famous quotes containing the word fame:
“O my countrymen!—be nice;Mbe cautious of your language;—and never, O! never let it be forgotten upon what small particles your eloquence and your fame depend.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)