Monday, June 26, 2006

Popularity - OLIVER CROMWELL

Anonymous: Are you not proud that so many came to see the chosen of the Lord enter in triumph?
Cromwell: Three times as many would have come to see me hanged.

OLIVER CROMWELL (1599 - 1658), Format adapted. An exchange recounted by Sigmund Freud in reference to his own popularity. In Hanns Sachs, Freud: Master and Friend, 7, 1944.

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