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Quote by Charles Dickens
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault o

A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. – Charles Dickens

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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. – Charles Dickens

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic. – George Bancroft

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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. – John Keats

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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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