The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. - H. L. Mencken

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. – H. L. Mencken

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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. – Johann von Goethe

So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the Kings highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? – Laurence Sterne

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. – Rose Macaulay

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