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I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Running, Mean, Justice
"Case of John Wilkes", 19 How. St. Tr. 1112, 1113; 8. C. 4 Burr. Part IV. 2562, 1763.
I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.