"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked."

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"Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world."

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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."

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

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"Applause waits on success."

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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."

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

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

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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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"Popularity? It's glory's small change."

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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

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"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."

Kant, Immanuel on Popularity
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"I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity."

Keats, John on Popularity
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"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

Lincoln, Abraham on Popularity
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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties."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. on Popularity
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"Whatever is popular deserves attention."

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"True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after."

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

Midler, Bette on Popularity
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."

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

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"The one who pleased everybody died before they were born."

Proverb on 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."

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"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."

Twain, Mark on Popularity
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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 had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home."

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"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

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"Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler."

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"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."

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