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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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

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O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens. – John Keats

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. – John Keats

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Whatever is popular deserves attention. – James Mackintosh

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

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I wouldnt say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. – Bette Midler

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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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