“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”

A quote from Lord Copper.
Scoop (1938)

Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Source: Institutions (1990), p. 119

"Theme of the Traitor and Hero"
Ficciones (1944)

Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 7, Autopsy Of Major Crashes, p. 272.

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 6; translated by Luigi Ricci

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

to Euphrates, Epp. Apoll. 82
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