QuoteQuest“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer’s corn; Men eat of it and die.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
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Fame is a fickle food (B)
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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
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