Quote by John Keats
The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and

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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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. – Cliff Richard

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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

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