There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any ov…

P. J. O'Rourke
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2007). Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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