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

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

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – 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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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

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