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• "Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!"
  • Luke 6:26

• Or art thou base, common and popular?
  • William Shakespeare, Henry V, IV, i, 37

• He has fought a good fight and has had to face every difficulty except popularity.
  • Oscar Wilde of William Ernest Henley; quoted in William Rothenstein, Men and Memories, I, ch, 25

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• "Avoid popularity, if you would have peace."
  • Abraham Lincoln

• "Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit."
  • William Penn

• "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."
  • Kant

• "Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men."
  • Lord Greville

• "It is more important to be popular than it is to be smart or interesting."
  • Jerry Seinfeld