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The difference between the eccentric and the weirdo is, in its way, the difference between a man with a teddy bear and a man with a gun

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Charles Waterton was just another typical eccentric. James Warren Jones , by contrast, was something of a weirdo. The difference between the eccentric and the weirdo is, in its way, the difference between a man with a teddy bear in his hand and a gun.

The eccentric raises a smile; the weirdos leave a chill. The eccentric is a distinctive presence, something of an absence.

The eccentric generally wants nothing more than his own attic-like space in which he can live by his own peculiar lights.

The weirdo, however, resents his outcast status and constantly seeks to get back into society.

Too few eccentrics can be as dangerous as too many weirdos.

A society needs the eccentric as much as a decorated frame for the portrait it fashions of itself.

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56

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33

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informal

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English

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48

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offensive

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long-living

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