The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportiona…

John Stuart Mill
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ✨ John Stuart Mill (2012). On Liberty, p.56, Courier Corporation
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ✨ John Stuart Mill (2012). On Liberty, p.56, Courier Corporation

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