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“the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.” Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
“The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I knew I belonged to the Public and to the world, not because I was talented, or even beautiful but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“In which of these respects the public is more stubborn is an empirical question to be judged from the factual evidence, not something that can be determined by reason alone.” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness...” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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