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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Notoriety

A proverb and a byword among all people.

Bible.

Notoriety is short-lived; fame is lasting.

Bancroft.

The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are.

Beaconsfield.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous!

Voltaire.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Cowley.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

Addison.