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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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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Thomas Carlyle

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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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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If you cry “Forward,” you must make plain in what direction to go. – Anton Chekhov

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I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Aspergers syndrome. – Gary Numan

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Thank God, all you who have a spark of rational piety in your hearts, for the glorious commonplace of earth and sky,—for this cloud-embosomed planet in which you pass your lives. – William Smith, Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil, 1862

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The bottom line is, Im blessed with good health. On top of that, I dont go around thinking Oh, Im 90, I better do this or I better do that. Im just Betty. Im the same Betty that Ive always been. Take it or leave it. – Betty White

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