Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.335
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.335

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