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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. – Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The multitude is always wrong. – Proverb

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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