When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)
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