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date: 14 January 2025

Charles Mackay 1812–89
Scottish poet and writer 

  1. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)