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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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You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. – John Keats

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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. – John Keats

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. – John Keats

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

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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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

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I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. – George S. Kaufman

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Mark Twain supposedly observed, Dont pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. Of course, today, he probably would have added, And hairspray by the gallon. – Thomas F. Calcagni

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