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Whatever is popular deserves attention. - James Mackintosh

Whatever is popular deserves attention. – James Mackintosh

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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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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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