Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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