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Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he gets to know something.
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he gets to know something.
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.