That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.
- John Stuart Mill
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In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.…
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