Cheffetz, Clouds Over Enfield, Connecticut, 1935
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.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has
abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been
proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it
contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
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