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Famous is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
“Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.”
“It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.”
“One who seeks fame and thereby loses his real self is no gentleman.”
“The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men.”
“He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause.”
“How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.”
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Famous is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
A post office called Famous was established in 1883, and remained in operation until 1908. The name Famous was suggested by postal officials.
