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We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.
We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.
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- Louis Kronenberger
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