"Whether it be that the multitude, feeling the pangs of poverty, sympathise with the daring and ingenious depredators who take away the rich man’s superfluity, or whether it be the interest that mankind in general feel for the records of perilous adventure, it is certain that the populace of all countries look with admiration upon great and successful thieves. "
- MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds. By CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D., 1852