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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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. – John Keats

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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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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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Youre not an M.P., youre a gastronomic pimp. – Aneurin Bevan

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

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More than kisses, letters mingle souls. – John Donne

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. – Aeschylus

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. – E. B. White

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton

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