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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. (Troyer Verne)
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. (Troyer Verne)
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. (Troyer Verne)
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. (Troyer Verne)
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. (Troyer Verne)
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. (Troyer Verne)
The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. (Troyer Verne)
I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. (Troyer Verne)
The public seldom forgive twice. (Troyer Verne)
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. (Troyer Verne)
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. (Troyer Verne)
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. (Troyer Verne)
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. (Troyer Verne)
If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. (Troyer Verne)
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters. (Troyer Verne)
No decent career was ever founded on a public. (Troyer Verne)
Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (Troyer Verne)
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. (Troyer Verne)
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected. (Troyer Verne)
[Getting chased by fans through the streets of Paris and Tokyo was] frustrating and distracting, ... There's no real control over how the media or the public perceives you. . . . It was a reflective time for me. (Troyer Verne)
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. (Troyer Verne)
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