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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. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. – Charles Dickens

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Flattery
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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! – Charles Dickens

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Unrequited Love
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They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. – Charles Dickens

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I dont believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. – Charlie Chaplin

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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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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. – Johann von Goethe

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong

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