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Eccentrism is by no means the sole privilege of the rich. Emperor Norton was a famously broke, yet grandiose fellow who was beloved throughout the city of San Francisco in the late 1800s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton



You can draw any line you like through a single data point. But you also kind of missed the original reference.




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