“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? — No — no, ‘tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
Book III, ch. 2 This derives from a statement by William Shakespeare in the play Julius Caesar where Caesar declares: <br class="br"> Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
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