John Stuart Mill - Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounde...

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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Exzentrizität hat es immer gegeben, wenn und wo die Charakterstärke gewachsen war; und der Grad der Exzentrizität in einer Gesellschaft war im Allgemeinen proportional zu der Menge an Genie, geistiger Kraft und Mut, die sie enthielt.

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