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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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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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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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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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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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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

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Im shopping around for something to do that no one will like. – Jerry Garcia

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I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if Id been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldnt have been a comic. – Dudley Moore

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