Voices In Time Celebrity 1711 | London We Few, We Famous Few Joseph Addison on fame as a double-edged sword.More
Voices In Time Celebrity 1880 | Paris Where the Flowers Go Edmond Goncourt sees Zola suffer from success.More
Voices In Time Celebrity c. 1330 | Kyoto Without Deeds, Without Names Yoshida Kenkō warns against the delusions of fame.More
Voices In Time Celebrity 1835 | Philadelphia Setting His Stage P.T. Barnum discovers there’s no business like show business.More
Voices In Time Celebrity 1949 | Oxford, MS William Faulkner Writes His Epitaph “It is my ambition to be abolished and voided from history.”More
Voices In Time Celebrity c. 482 BC | Athens Voted Off the Island Forgetting a once-beloved statesman. More
Voices In Time Celebrity c. 1680 | Oxfordshire As False as Common Fame “There’s not a thing on earth that I can name so foolish and so false as common fame.”More
Voices In Time Celebrity 1715 | London Wretched Lust of Praise “Unblemished let me live, or die unknown.”More