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Quote by William Penn
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. - Willi

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

Other quotes by William Penn

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. – William Penn

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Property
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William Penn
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. – William Penn

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Sweetest Day
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William Penn
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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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Recognition

Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

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Recognition

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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Recognition

I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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Recognition

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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. – Kemal Ataturk

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx

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When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me Chick because I looked like Tweety Bird. – Nicky Hilton

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funny

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. – Paul Wellstone

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Learning