Fame is something like unto a kind of mushroom, which Pliny recounts to be the greatest miracle in nature, because growing and having no root.
Thomas Fuller.
Compares fame to a rootless mushroom, illustrating how fame can grow suddenly yet has no lasting foundation.
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