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"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."
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"For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity."

"True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity."

"Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is."

"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."

"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."

"I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much."

"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."

"Popularity does not happen overnight with a blink of an eye. It takes time, effort and creative knowledge to reach that particular goal in life."

"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."

"Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity."
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"I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain -Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies Come to life and fade away;What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless, into the vast ocean of the 'light ineffable'."

"And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom."
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