If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Friedrich Schiller
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This is one of the most famous quotes that was quoted by the great painter, Vincent Van Gogh. If you can please only few people with your art and deeds but fail to please many, this would be bad.

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