Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give p

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

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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. – Yogi Berra

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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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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I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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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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