"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd" - Edith Sitwell
"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time" - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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The reason they are aristocrats in the first place is because they dared to act in a way that the 'normal man' did not.
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