| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39501 |
| QUOTATION: | 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 vigour, and moral courage which it contained. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), British philosopher, economist. On Liberty, ch. 3 (1859). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Mill Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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