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Friday, 10 October 2008

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All that glitters is not gold.

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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

-- Macaulay, Thomas B. | Popularity

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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

-- Berra, Yogi | Popularity

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Applause waits on success.

-- Franklin, Benjamin | Popularity

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

-- Lincoln, Abraham | Popularity

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

-- Penn, William | Popularity

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

-- Fuller, Margaret | Popularity

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

-- Twain, Mark | Popularity

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

-- Vries, Peter De | Popularity

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

-- Fournier | Popularity

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.

-- Goldsmith, Oliver | Popularity

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

-- Twain, Mark | Popularity

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

-- Epicurus | Popularity

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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

-- Keats, John | Popularity

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I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

-- Midler, Bette | Popularity

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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

-- Garcia, Jerry | Popularity

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