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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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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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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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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn

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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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