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A universal
feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely
disregarded.
-- Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth
President of the USA
The public,
with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled
by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely
and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But
there are no certainties.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
The worthiest
man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the
world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge.
He hath been declared and enlightened by the most
clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of
him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French
Philosopher, Essayist
The more you
stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public
figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
-- Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh
President of the USA
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If you have
got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure
that is where they want to be.
-- Cliff Richard
It has taken
me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by
the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull
enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British
public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a
suspicious character in some quarters.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
No decent
career was ever founded on a public.
-- Source Unknown
The English
public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until
it is told that the work in question is immoral.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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