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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn

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Thomas Alva Edison

ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

4.5 · 22 votes

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Applause waits on success.

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

4.7 · 60 votes · 116 reads

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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Abraham Lincoln

PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

5.0 · 24 votes · 110 reads

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

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PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

4.1 · 36 votes · 116 reads

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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.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.5 · 39 votes · 141 reads

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

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TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

3.0 · 41 votes · 142 reads

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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.

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Norman Vincent Peale

AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

3.2 · 39 votes · 111 reads

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

3.9 · 53 votes

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

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PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

4.1 · 39 votes

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I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I

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4.3 · 39 votes · 164 reads

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.8 · 30 votes · 184 reads
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.7 · 44 votes · 168 reads
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.9 · 13 votes · 113 reads
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Umberto Eco
NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century
4.2 · 14 votes · 166 reads
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Anonymous
4.9 · 18 votes · 15 reads
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century
4.1 · 39 votes · 117 reads
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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century
3.1 · 22 votes · 94 reads
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