Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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

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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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