The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Eccentricity
Quotations by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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