There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. (Jean de La Bruyère)

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Jean de La Bruyère

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