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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn

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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

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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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

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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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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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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere. – Proverb

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. – William Osler

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I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and Ive grown as a person so much. – Ricky Williams

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