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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

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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn

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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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

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