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POPULARITY

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
- Notebook, 1902

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
- Notebook, 1895

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Detail from Taylor ad
Illustration by Pierre Brissaud from ad for
Old Taylor Kentucky Whiskey from
Feb. 1937 COUNTRY LIFE
from the Dave Thomson collection

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