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    The mob has many heads but no brains.
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)