Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this read more

Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the read more

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for read more

Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of read more

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.