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    “For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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