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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

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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

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

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The English like eccentrics. They just dont like them living next door. – Julian Clary

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