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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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when hes well dressed. There aint much credit in that. – 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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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

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

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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 public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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I have zero interest in sports of any kind – professional, college or international. – Jimmy Wales

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. – Aristotle

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