Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. (William Hazlitt)

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

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