Fame is a food that dead men eat,- I have no stomach for such meat.

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Fame is a food that dead men eat,- I have no stomach for such meat.

Henry Austin Dobson

1906

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Appetite for fame Fame

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Poem

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1906

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Henry Austin Dobson

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Dobson, Henry Austin. "Fame is a Food That Dead Men Eat." The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1906 - Apr. 1907.

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Fame is a food that dead men eat,- I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson

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