“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”

—  Oscar Wilde

As quoted in The New-York Herald (12 August 1883) http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/fame-and-obscurity.html

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