Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Peter Schlemihl” in chapter 3, page 12 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men:
...great obstacles as to education, but to do anything remarkable without running the risk of being conspicuous-this would puzzle the most skilful.
Fame is the shadow of great action.
Now nobody but Peter Schlemihl ever succeeded in living without his shadow, and it is not recorded that even he enjoyed that situation.
It would be easy to show by a long series of examples
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