The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
-- Jane Porter
   
Jane Porter   Name:
Jane Porter
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
Irish
Birth:
1776
Death:
1850
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