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Quote by John Keats
I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish

I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

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Oceans
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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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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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. – Yogi Berra

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Recognition

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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

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Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. – Betty Hill

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