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Quote by William Hazlitt
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, sp

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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. – William Hazlitt

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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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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 basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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

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