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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulge ...
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
Wonderful "Force of Public Opinion!" We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise t ...
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit ...
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly im ...
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round.
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age ...
American public opinion is like an ocean--it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
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