"Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still."

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Source : Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.127

Donald Grant Mitchell

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