William Shakespeare on Popularity
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“All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him.”
“I have seen the dumb men throng to see him, and The blind to hear him speak: matrons flung gloves, Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers Upon him as he passed; the nobles bended, As to Jove's statue, and the commons made A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts.”