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From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

—Defoe, Daniel

'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?'suggested Mr Snodgrass.'Shout with the largest,'replied Mr Pickwick.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

No tin hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibblebabbling mob of blackguarding and corporation- paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, ordivert its purposetoplay itsnatural and rational part in the development of the economic, political, and social life of our nation.

—Lewis,John L(lewellyn)

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.

—Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65

   It is clear that both England and America are now to be governed by the mob.

—Grenville, George

America is now wholly given over to a död mob of scribbling women.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a moböwould have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thingöwalked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'Yes,'said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. I replace my hat on my head, and he puts on his cap, and we both grasp hands, and I then sayaloud: 'I thank God,Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.' He answered,'I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.'

—Stanley, Sir Henry Morton originally John Rowlands

A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh