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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was th

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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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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