“May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.”

—  Richard Savage

Character of Foster, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame", Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, line 158.

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