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

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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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

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A friend is known when needed. – Arabic Proverb

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. – John Donne, 1623

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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from lifes slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck

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