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Quote by Lord Mansfield
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. – Lord Mansfield

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

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